John Deasy

Dr. John E. Deasy is the Senior partner at Cambiar Education. He recently retired as superintendent of Stockton Unified School District in California. During his tenure he oversaw a massive upgrade of new curriculum, technology for all youth, counselors and mental health clinicians in all schools, championed homeless issues and saw strong improvement in all youth indicators of success. He also has led several ventures. He was the Board Chair and former CEO of Reset: New Day, New Year, which is an alternative prison for young men 18-25 in the Bay Area of California. He was the founding Editor-In-Chief of The Line. The Line is a magazine dedicated to civil discourse in dealing with the most pressing matters for those on the front lines of social justice, entrepreneurship, and education. You can visit at TheLineK12.org. John also serves at a Superintendent in Residence for the Broad Center and facilitates work in the Broad Academy while coaching a number of current and emerging national education leaders. John also maintains a management consulting practice and has been active on a number of boards including: College Summit, UnboundED, Cambiar, TeacherCraft, as well as 12 other not-for-profit organization and also serves on numerous advisory boards. John is also an Aspen Fellow from the inaugural cohort of the Aspen Institute’s fellowship of entre-preneurs in education and is a senior moderator for the Institute. John earned a Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Providence College and a Doctorate form The University of Louisville in Kentucky. John has taught at numerous universities and speaks frequently at State and national events and conferences. John led dramatic improvements in each school district that he served as superintendent which propelled student achievement, high school graduation rates, and access rates to high-quality courses and schools to historic levels, while simultaneously reducing suspension and dropout rates in each district he served as the leader. Dr. Deasy was superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District, where he championed a “youth first” agenda credited with reversing the district’s school-to- prison pipeline, raising achievement and helping more students graduate ready for college and the workplace than at any time in the District’s history. John also served as superintendent in Prince George’s County Public Schools in Maryland, Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District in California and Cove