District leadership · North Carolina
I lead with people at the center and evidence in view—building the conditions for strong schools, meaningful student pathways, and lasting improvement.
Selected district results · 2025–26
These results belong to students, educators, school leaders, families, and partners across Brunswick County. My work has been to help align the people, priorities, and routines behind them.
Sources: BCS 2025–26 District Data and NC DPI accountability reports. “Helped lead” describes my role in districtwide results.
Teaching & learning
A result matters most when school teams can use it. I support principals and teachers in setting a clear instructional focus, studying common evidence, responding during the school day, and checking what changed.
Our secondary work emphasizes professional learning teams, common formative assessments, standards mastery, targeted intervention, and shared expectations for walkthroughs.
Source: BCS 2025–26 Accountability & Testing board presentation, September 22, 2026.
College, career & opportunity
College credit, career credentials, and work-based learning give students several strong routes beyond graduation. I work with school, college, and business partners to expand those routes.
Career & College Promise
BCS students enrolled in CCP, from 2023–24 to 2025–26. Enrollment reached 579 in 2024–25.
Enrollment increased by 237 students from 2021–22 to 2025–26. Scale: 0–700 students.
Advanced Placement
of 862 AP exams earned a score of 3 or higher in 2026. There were 677 qualifying scores; the rate was 48.9% on 564 exams in 2022.
Scores of 3 or higher +29.6 points since 2022
Share of exams scoring 3 or higher. Scale: 0–100%.
AP exams taken +298 since 2022
Exam volume. Scale: 0–1,000 exams.
Career & Technical Education
Three measures of opportunity, from their starting points to 2025–26. Each chart uses its own scale.
Graduating students completing a CTE concentration.
Credentials earned districtwide.
Student work-based learning placements.
Counts describe distinct measures: concentrators are graduating students; credentials are awards and may include multiple credentials per student.
Sources: BCS 2025–26 District Data; BCS AP dashboard; CTE and CCP presentation.
How I lead
Improvement takes a clear aim and a repeatable way to learn from the work. I help teams move from strategy to daily practice through four connected steps.
Use achievement, growth, attendance, and school evidence to choose a focused goal.
Support principals and teacher teams with time, trust, expectations, and coaching.
Connect common assessments, intervention, and walkthroughs to what students need.
Study results, listen to people closest to the work, and improve the next cycle.
Ed.D. research · UNCW, 2026
My dissertation examined Advanced Teaching Roles, a model that extends the influence of effective teachers beyond one classroom.
I compared one North Carolina ATR district with three similar districts across 2021–2025, looking at proficiency, academic growth, and teacher retention. The findings point to potential—especially for growth—and to the importance of role clarity, principal support, trust, and implementation quality.
Explore the study and its limitsEVAAS growth index
Schools in the ATR district had higher average growth across the study period. The association was the strongest academic signal in the analysis.
School-year observations, 2021–2025. An association; this design does not establish cause.
Leadership philosophy
“Serve, Inspire, Trust, Empower” is a commitment to how people experience leadership—not just a set of words.
Begin with the needs of students, staff, and the community.
Make a clear, shared future feel possible and worth pursuing.
Be candid, follow through, and treat people like people.
Build the capacity and ownership that sustain progress.
Classroom teaching, virtual education, school leadership, and cabinet-level service have shaped how I see the whole district.
Read the full resumeSecondary Education & Accountability · Brunswick County Schools
West Brunswick High School
Brunswick County Schools
Public, independent, and virtual learning settings
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Jonathan Kent Paschal, Ed.D. · Leland, North Carolina