Matthew Frank (Program Director)

Matthew Frank is a longtime educator and education consultant based in Austin, Texas.  Prior to becoming Program Director with School Empowerment Network, Matthew served as a Principal and Principal Supervisor coach with TNTP in Elko, Nevada supporting tiered district teams to implement instructional leadership strategies such as observation and feedback cycles and data driven instruction processes. Before that, Mathew founded and led a high-performing dual language & blended learning elementary campus in Austin. The school design was the coalescence of the best practices and innovative developments in elementary education that Matthew had learned from his studies in master’s programs for a Curriculum & Instruction degree and an Educational Administration degree, as well as from his eight years in the classroom as a bilingual and general education teacher at a variety of grade levels and two years as an assistant principal.