Dr. Dawn Love is an educational leader with a passion for providing all students with a high quality education that equips them with the tools needed to access the opportunities and experiences they deserve. Before becoming an instructional leader, Dr. Love started her career teaching in both Louisiana and Texas. Her first experience in leadership was serving as a Master Teacher in a high impact school in Ascension Parish. After significant gains and a school award from the National Institute for Excellence in Teaching, Dr. Love transitioned into the role of an administrator. During her tenure as a principal, she focused on building teacher leaders and implementing strategic systems to increase the effectiveness of the school’s impact on the whole child. This passion for excellence with a focus on teacher leadership capacity carried into her support role as a district supervisor. Dr. Love served as a Secondary Supervisor before taking on the challenge of Supervisor of TAP (The Teacher and Student Advancement Program) and Teacher Development. In this position, she supported the instructional leaders (Master Teachers and Mentor Teachers) in the district’s twelve TAP schools. Dr. Love also led the district’s alternative certification program that recruited, trained, and hired new teachers to serve in schools with the highest staffing need.

Dr. Love also served as the Deputy Chief of Staff for Organizational Development at the Louisiana Department of Education where she supported the state’s efforts to recruit, retain, and train high quality personnel before joining the University View Academy team as the Chief of Academics. She has also served as a presenter and facilitator at Harvard Graduate School’s Closing the Achievement Gap and School Turnaround Leaders Institute.

Dr. Love holds a Bachelor’s degree in English Education with a minor in History from Louisiana State University, a master’s degree from Southern University in Educational Leadership, and a Doctorate of Education from Southeastern University.