Our guest blogger this week is Dr. Leigh McGuigan. For the past year, Leigh was responsible for new and innovative schools in the Cleveland School District, where she opened two new science, technology, engineering and mathematics (“STEM”) high schools and led a diverse portfolio of innovative, high-poverty, charter and district schools to outstanding results. She also spent two years as the Executive Director for School Leadership at New York City Schools, where, among other things, she spearheaded the development of a new, criterion-based, competitive process for selecting principals, helped lead the Chancellor’s initiative to raise the bar for teacher tenure, shaped strategy and funding for school leadership development initiatives, and developed a new website to support principals in their work. She has a background as a lawyer, entrepreneur and financial services executive.