Carly Price

• Curious, creative change agent.
• Believer in kids, Black lives, and the healing powers of the outdoors.
• INTJ and Enneagram 1.
• Puppy mama, Peloton junkie, and foodie.

Growing up in the shadows of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, I am, consequently a die-hard Cardinals’ baseball fan. My unhealthy obsession with Post-it Notes and indie coffee shops began while earning by bachelor's degree in English literature and biology at Washington University in St. Louis. While attending Wash U, I played four years of volleyball, helping the Bears to cap off their 1996 season with an NCAA National Championship.

Following undergrad, I amassed two professional degrees from Emory University (MAT, DAST). Those kind folks let me specialize in my passion: using science content to teach literacy to under-resourced urban middle schoolers.

Since then, I have taught in both private and public schools, and in 2005 while in Atlanta, I became the director of a grant-funded elementary school (K-5) science lab designed to engage students from economically disadvantaged and non-English speaking backgrounds.

Despite my complete inability to carry a tune, in 2007, I moved from Atlanta to Nashville. I was selected into the Principals’ Leadership Academy of Nashville (PLAN), a partnership between Vanderbilt’s Peabody College of Education and Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools to foster creative and courageous leadership. I became an assistant principal for academics in a Nashville charter school, then returned to a traditional, zoned public middle school as an instructional coach and International Baccalaureate Middle Years Coordinator.

I was honored to be voted as Middle School Teacher of the Year in 2013-14 for the entire district of Metro Nashville Public Schools, composed of over 10,000 certificated staff.

The ocean beckoned me, and in 2019, I moved to the eighth largest school district in the U.S., Hillsborough County Public Schools. As the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Coordinator, I ushered an underperforming middle school toward its new IB MYP accreditation.

Now, as a consultant based out of Asheville, North Carolina, I admittedly geek out over opportunities to see children and adults grow into their power, and I love to build updated systems for learning and school design.

In my free time, advocate for the use of the Oxford comma, and I masquerade as a mixed media artist, out-of-work performer of spoken word & stand-up comedy, puppy wrangler, and experimental chef.