Doreen brings extensive experience working with education, healthcare, and communities. Ms. Marvin is trained in strategic planning, creative planning, service delivery design, business strategy framework, and systems approaches to organizational development. In addition, Ms. Marvin has worked with school districts to develop and test their teacher and administrator evaluation. Ms. Marvin has facilitated and assisted many education service agencies, school districts, and community-based groups in design, strategic planning, long-range planning, goal setting, communication, program design, and developing standards of operations. Of note is her ability to lead a team and to successfully execute a project, meeting deadlines and deliverables. Doreen has been trained in principled negotiation and conflict management strategies. She is praised for her ability to facilitate difficult conversations and to assist groups to come to agreements. She has strong project management skills and has served as an executive coach.
She has coordinated the development and start-up of 7 magnet schools including serving as the educational consultant through the design and construction phases. These include innovative schools for children ages pre-kindergarten to grade 12 serving over 2500 students annually. At the high school level, Ms. Marvin was lead facilitator for the creation of 2 theme based high schools. In all cases students have the potential to graduate with at least one year of college credits and at the most a full degree. Doreen has worked with school districts to define magnet pathways with the goal of college and career readiness, magnet pathway retention, and curriculum alignment. Furthermore, Ms. Marvin has consulted with school districts in California, Iowa, New Mexico, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas and Connecticut to bring new theme-based schools and programs to the community.
Doreen has worked with underperforming schools to bring about systemic improvements. Ms. Marvin has served as project director for federally funded grant programs with extensive evaluation components. Ms. Marvin has trained community programs and pre-k to 12 educators with content related to cultural competence, leveraging leadership skills for improving student outcomes, building organizational culture, social curriculums, child growth and development, sexual harassment, and supervision and evaluation. Doreen partners with the Elam Leadership Institute and Dr. Donna Elam to bring turnkey leadership services regarding Cultural Competence and Equity to school districts and communities. She partners with PKR, Inc. to support education service agencies with design, planning, and business strategy. During her long tenure at LEARN, a regional education service center in CT, Ms. Marvin served as the Director of Early Childhood and Director of Development.
Mrs. Marvin has presented at conferences for Association of Education Service Agencies, Magnet Schools of America, South Carolina Department of Education, and the US Department of Education. Ms. Marvin serves as a Past President of Magnet Schools of America. She is also a member of the AESA Foundation Board.