David Keeling

David Keeling leads TNTP’s national communications strategy, manages its publications efforts, and advises over 30 project sites and urban school districts on communicating teacher quality-related policies and initiatives. His words have appeared in teacher recruitment ads in the New York City subway, in news outlets from Education Week to The New York Times, and in the remarks and messages of some of the nation’s most prominent education leaders.

Most recently, he co-authored TNTP’s 2009 study The Widget Effect, which earned widespread acclaim and shaped major legislative changes to teacher evaluation policies nationwide. David joined the organization in 2001 as Communications Manager for the NYC Teaching Fellows, the largest urban alternative certification program in the country, where he led communications with Teaching Fellows in 1,100 schools and nearly 20,000 annual applicants. He holds a BA in English from Middlebury College.