Robin Cornet is a NIET Senior Specialist for Arkansas and the AREN Partnership. She has over 15 years’ experience in education and now her work is centered on coaching rural districts in Arkansas to implement best practices of highly effective schools, increasing teacher effectiveness, and positively impacting student achievement.

Before joining NIET, Robin served multiple roles in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana. As a high school teacher, Master Teacher, and District Coordinator of Mathematics, she worked to improve her home district in effective teacher practices, leadership team support, and curriculum implementation. Her education career started as a high school math teacher and she stays connected to those roots. She continues to support teachers of mathematics with Louisiana Department of Education mathematics projects and as an Illustrative Mathematics Certified Facilitator.