The Churn

Beth Francesco, former executive director of the National Press Club Journalism Institute, will become executive director of the Education Writers Association at the end of September.

Laura Encalade, former co-president of the National Institute for Excellence in Teaching and chief of staff at the Tennessee Department of Education, has joined Tennessee SCORE as chief of staff.

Sydni Dunn, previously press secretary and director of communications for the Louisiana Department of Education, has joined Whiteboard Advisors as a senior director.

Melissa Reynolds, former program officer at the Walton Family Foundation, is now senior director, policy and program at PIE Network.

Bailey Cato Czupryk, former chief program officer at Gradient Learning, has joined Leading Educators as chief research and design officer.

Tomiko Brown-Nagin, former dean of Harvard Radcliffe Institute, will be the next dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Education, succeeding Daniel L. Schwartz.

Elysa Cash, former senior policy associate at EducationCounsel, is now senior K-12 education policy advisor at Third Way.

Laura Meckler, national education writer at the Washington Post, is moving to the paper’s new Political Enterprise team. The education team at the Post now includes Lauren Lumpkin, Todd Wallack, Susan Svrluga, and Danielle Douglas-Gabriel.