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Rachel Sexton Named Chief of ACES Institute

June 29th, 2017


ACES Institute Chief Rachel Sexton

 

For Immediate Release:  Rachel Sexton Named Chief of ACES Institute

Contact:  Evelyn Rossetti-Ryan, erossetti-ryan@aces.org / 203-498-6816                                    

June 29, 2017. North Haven, CT:  Rachel Sexton was named as Chief of the ACES Institute, a division of Area Cooperative Educational Services (ACES), a regional educational service center serving greater New Haven. In this role, she will oversee the new ACES Institute platform. The ACES Institute will focus on building agency capacity through developing resources related to talent, leadership, grants and programs as well as processes to create greater consistency of practice and to capture the knowledge residing in ACES. The Chief of the Institute is part of the executive leadership team.

Rachel was one of the original teachers at ACES Collaborative High School, which later became CAMS. Before re-joining ACES, Rachel was a teacher in the New Haven Public Schools and an educational consultant.  She has been with the agency for five years, serving as an Education Specialist, Director of Talent Development, and most recently, Interim Chief of the ACES Institute. Rachel has a Bachelor of Arts in History with an education policy certificate from Dartmouth (1988), where she graduated Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa; a Masters of Arts in Teaching Social Studies from Brown University (1989); and a Masters of Arts in Liberal Studies in Humanities from Wesleyan University. She completed the Sacred Heart University administrator certification program. Rachel is currently enrolled in the school superintendent certification program at Central Connecticut State University.

“Rachel brings an expansive knowledge base of educational issues, great intellectual energy, and strong interpersonal skills to this role. We are excited at the potential of her leadership for overall agency improvement. I look forward to working with her in this new leadership role and am confident that she will contribute to ACES growth and development in significant ways” said Dr. Thomas Danehy, ACES Executive Director.

Area Cooperative Educational Services (ACES) is a regional educational service center, one of six in the state of Connecticut. It has been serving the educational needs of the twenty-five communities in Greater New Haven for close to fifty years. ACES mission is to empower its students, member districts and other clients to meet educational and life challenges in the changing global environment by providing collaborative, customized, cost-effective solutions to meet identified needs in the educational community. For additional information on ACES, visit www.aces.org.

 

 

 

 

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