About me
Dr. Kody Colvin is the Lead School and District improvement specialist at the Utah Education Policy Center (UEPC). Kody spent 11 years in the Salt Lake City School District (SLCSD) as a classroom teacher, instructional coach, and school administrator—assistant principal and principal. His expertise includes school leadership, instructional leadership, student support, and community engagement. As an administrator and instructional leader, Kody believes that increasing professional learning opportunities for educational practitioners is essential to improve educational outcomes for all scholars. While serving as an assistant principal at a Title 1 school, Dr. Colvin supported educators in moving their multilingual learners (MLs) from “critical” to “exemplary” in two years by exceeding district and state-level averages for growth and proficiency as measured by the WIDA assessment. Dr. Colvin is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy (ELP) at the University of Utah.