Match Education
Kelsey Nicholson is an experienced educator currently serving as a Lead Teacher at Match Education since July 2020 and as a Teaching Fellow at UP Academy Dorchester since July 2018. Additionally, Kelsey has been an AmeriCorps Member with City Year Detroit since August 2017, working directly with ninth-grade students at Osborn High School to improve attendance, behavior, and coursework. Kelsey has also contributed as a Research Intern at Freedom Cafe, focusing on community education about human trafficking and ethical consumerism. Earlier experience includes serving as Senior Staff and Orientation Leader at the University of New Hampshire's Office of First Year Programs. Kelsey holds a Master of Education from Charles Sposato Graduate School of Education and a Bachelor's Degree in History, Women's Studies, and Middle Eastern Studies from the University of New Hampshire.
Match Education
Match Education is an education reform organization based in Boston. Through our work, we aim to be a platform of design and innovation for the K-12 education space. Match Education is the combined brand name of the two entities through which we conduct our work: Match Charter Public School: MCPS is a high-performing public charter school that serves 1,250 students in grades preK-12 on three campuses in Boston. We measure school quality by our ability to enroll and retain high-need students, by the performance of our students on Advanced Placement (AP) assessments, the SAT, and other standardized tests, and by the rate at which our students attain four-year college degrees and ultimately quality jobs. We constantly refine our school design to achieve better outcomes for our students. We also train high quality teachers through our Match Associate Teacher (MAT) residency program. The Match Foundation, Inc.: The Foundation supports MCPS in various capacities, most notably in real estate, development, communications, and dissemination. Match's AmeriCorps tutoring program operates under the Foundation, supporting our AmeriCorps fellows serving in MCPS. Also housed under the Foundation is Match Export, the dissemination division of Match Education whose purpose is to extend the reach of our impact by offering educators and instructional leaders across the country access to high-quality educational resources drawn directly from our hands-on work at MCPS