“The training session at PCHS was exceptionally informative and kept the Board's interest throughout . . . thanks to Brian Carpenter, who was so helpful and enjoyable, we now have a better vision of what a Board should be.”
Vicky Francis
Board Member
Pacific Palisades Charter High School
“Charter School Board University should be required reading for charter leaders and board members... the board self-assessment questions Dr. Carpenter poses at the end of each chapter produce a reliable picture of how well the board is functioning. Superb job!”
Briscoe R. Smith,
Esq. Atlantic Legal Foundation
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Vicky Francis
Board Member
Pacific Palisades Charter High School
“Charter School Board University should be required reading for charter leaders and board members... the board self-assessment questions Dr. Carpenter poses at the end of each chapter produce a reliable picture of how well the board is functioning. Superb job!”
Briscoe R. Smith,
Esq. Atlantic Legal Foundation
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Bio
Described by others with phrases such as “the platinum standard on board and governance matters” and “the foremost authority on charter school governance in the country,” one-time high-school dropout Dr. Brian L. Carpenter is a prolific writer, speaker and board trainer whose impact is felt in charter schools throughout the country. The list of institutions that have expressed thanks for his work includes countless schools, as well as prominent organizations such as Ball State University, the South Carolina Public Charter School District, the Governor of Delaware, Harvard University, and the National Association of Charter School Authorizers.
Though known for his expertise on charter schools, those close to Brian know that he is anything but one-dimensional. His professional life experiences include seven years of peacetime service in the Marine Corps, adjunct teaching at the collegiate and university levels, and twelve years as a school leader. He advocated parental choices in education as part of the prestigious Mackinac Center for Public Policy for three years before going on to become CEO of the National Charter Schools Institute at Central Michigan University, where he published two books and numerous papers and articles on the importance of sound governance as an indispensable key to building a high-performing school. Always an entrepreneur at heart, Brian formed his own consulting business in the summer of 2009, under whose banner he continues his passion of helping schools.
Both of Brian’s books, Charter School Board University and The Seven Outs: Strategic Planning Made Easy for Charter Schools (available on Amazon.com) are widely read by charter school leaders and used by other consultants. His third book, Preventing Charter School Train Wrecks will be published early next year.
After joining the Marines at age 17, Brian eventually returned to school, earning his associates, bachelors, masters, and most recently, doctoral degrees. His Ph.D. was conferred by Capella University in the fall of 2008. Using his dissertation to study the characteristics of boards whose schools dissolved, Dr. Carpenter became the first researcher in the country to study this particular aspect of charter school closures. He is also one of a few hundred consultants worldwide to have been personally trained by Dr. John and Miriam Carver in the theory and application of Policy Governance®. Brian is a member of the International Policy Governance Association and the National Association of Charter School Authorizers.
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