Holly Houston, Ed.D.

Holly Houston, Ed. D. is the Executive Director of Relearning by Design.  She has a long history of involvement in non-profit management and in designing as well as evaluating educational initiatives.  Her recent program evaluation has focused on funded initiatives in the arts, in museum and pediatric hospital education, and in special education.

Holly currently leads the New Jersey Curriculum Initiative (NJCI), the content focus of which is skill-based understanding through unit design in reading, writing, speaking and listening, k-12 across the curriculum.

She is a former high school social studies and physical education teacher and coach.  She earned her Ed.D. from Teachers College at Columbia University and her A.B. from Stanford University.  Holly served as Executive Director of the Coalition of Essential Schools, as well as on the boards of the Waldorf School of Princeton, and Storytelling Arts.  She is the mother of three children.