Jarret Reid Whitaker

Reid Whitaker is the creator of STEMscopes, which led to his being named by EdTech Digest as one of the nation's leading "Eduprenuers" or Education Entrepreneurs. Reid is an advocate for providing a high-quality education for the most underserved and underrepresented students.

He began his teaching career with Teach For America as a 5th grade and elementary science lab teacher, for which he was awarded the HEB Texas Excellence in Education Rising Star Award. Reid also provided numerous hours of professional development training and coaching to teachers in Houston ISD by being a content specialist for the district and then as an Associate Director for the Center for Education at Rice University. Subsequently, Reid returned to Port Houston Elementary as principal. In his three years as principal, he raised the accountability rating of the school from Academically Acceptable to Exemplary, earning Port Houston Elementary a spot in the top 2 percent of ll HISD schools for student growth. In 2009, Reid received the distinguished Houston's Emerging Leader Award from the Greater Houston Partnership.

Reid returned to Rice University to create STEMsCopes and joined Accelerate Learning to help solve the STEM crisis in the country and globally through the biggest lever to eradicate this problem-education.

He earned his PhD from his alma mater, Rice University, in Educational Administration.