Diana BranchVice President of Partnerships

Diana worked in public education for 16 years before joining the engage2learn team. During that time, she worked as a classroom teacher, mentor teacher, school counselor. Diana taught in the classroom from grades K – 8, some of that experience during summer school, and was an administrator at both the elementary and secondary level. After earning her Master’s Degree in Education Administration, she served as an elementary assistant principal, then an assistant principal at the secondary school in Anderson-Shiro before being hired as the Principal.

Diana’s experience lets her connect with people in many different roles across a district. She knows how teachers feel when we ask them to try something outside of their comfort zone. She also understands the struggles and successes an administrator and instructional coach go through while supporting teachers through change.

Diana cares most about supporting educators so they can directly affect the success of their students. She is proud of the work she does because the districts that we partner with want what is best for their students.

Diana worked with districts to train teachers and principals in their district’s framework and then to coach them on the best practices throughout the school year. She also provided executive coaching to administrators throughout the school year, where the focus was on T-PESS, along with providing Coaches Academy training.

As a Vice President of Partnerships for engage2learn, Diana leads the team with several partnerships engage2learn has with TEA including BLGP/MIZ and ADSY. She works collaboratively with district leaders as they work to complete their Strategic Plan templates and artifacts required with these grant projects. Along with this work, she works with several district leaders from schools around Texas to ensure that the project is on the right track.

Key engage2learn Projects

Frenship ISD Learning Framework

Huntsville ISD HISD Learning Framework

Mesquite ISD Literacy

South San Antonio ISD Learning Framework

ADSY Phase I and Phase II

BLGP/MIZ

Manages Projects for Executive Coaching aligned to the Effective School Framework with a focus on schools who are improvement required

Key Projects During Public School Service

Served as English Language Arts teacher at the elementary level and seventh and eighth grades

Served as a self-contained teacher at the elementary level and as a 4th grade writing teacher

Developed a student tracking process based on a combination of evaluation data points and student work

Served on Elementary Curriculum Writing Committees

Developed a position for a Reading Specialist and, with collaboration from the teacher she hired, developed the job responsibilities and chose the curriculum for the position

Education & Certifications

M.A. Administration Leadership |Lamar University

B.A. Education | Sam Houston State University

ESL Certified

Elementary English

Elementary Self-Contained

Guidance Counselor

TTESS/TPESS Certified