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Championing Metro Atlanta's Students.
Securing Metro Atlanta's Future.

Rooted in Community, Focused on Students

We work to ensure every student has access to a great K–12 public school—no matter where they live and learn.

RedefinED Atlanta is a locally based nonprofit working to ensure every Metro Atlanta student has access to high-quality public education options. We work closely with families, educators, community partners, and civic leaders to create more opportunities, support new ideas, and make lasting improvements in our schools.

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Rooted in Community, Focused on Students

We work to ensure every student has access to a great K–12 public school—no matter where they live and learn.

RedefinED Atlanta is a locally based nonprofit working to ensure every Metro Atlanta student has access to high-quality public education options. We work closely with families, educators, community partners, and civic leaders to create more opportunities, support new ideas, and make lasting improvements in our schools.

Learn About Us

Where We Serve

Our work spans 11 counties as well as the City of Atlanta, which together comprise the Atlanta Regional Commission’s definition of Metro Atlanta. To date, our deepest effort and investment is in two regions: City of Atlanta and Clayton County.

Find Your District Hub

Find resources, data, events, and more—all connected to your school district.

Atlanta Public Schools Hub

Clayton County Public Schools Hub
Map of metro Atlanta: Cherokee, Forsyth, Cobb, Douglas, Fulton, Fayette, Clayton, Henry, Rockdale, DeKalb and Gwinnett counties

Our Why

A student’s potential shouldn’t be limited by their zip code. Yet across Metro Atlanta, access to high-quality public school options remains inequitable. That’s why we’re working to level the playing field. Students are counting on us to help them build a future full of opportunity, and we can’t afford to wait. The future of our region depends on the opportunities we create for students today.

Our Team

We’re a group of experienced educators, leaders, and community organizers dedicated to helping build a public education ecosystem that works for every student.
Meet Our Team

Executive Director's Message

Angira Sceusi looks back on the organization’s first 10 years and shares its vision for the future.
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Our Impact

public charter and innovation schools launched
1
students with expanded access to great public school options
10000
policy wins since our founding
0
stakeholders mobilized via RedefinED and our grantees since our founding in 2016
19975
deployed to support district-based initiatives
$ 0 M
raised and leveraged to support school and system transformation
$ 50 M

How We Drive Change

We believe lasting impact requires courageous leadership, strong community partnerships, and bold, coordinated action. We spark system-wide change so that all students, no matter where they live or learn, have the opportunity to thrive. We focus on three key areas to make this vision a reality.

Our Initiatives

Opportunity & Access

We expand access to high-quality public school options by investing in leaders, schools, and systems that are working to ensure every student has a fair shot at success.

About Our Investments

Collaborative Ecosystems

We bring together educators, advocates, families, and funders to drive collective action. By lifting up a range of perspectives and building strong partnerships, we ensure solutions reflect the strengths and needs of our communities.

About Our Partnerships

Innovation & Systemic Change

We seek out bold ideas and proven strategies that challenge the status quo and lead to lasting impact. Our work supports transformational leadership, scalable solutions, and policy shifts that break down systemic barriers to student success.

How We INnovate

Featured Events

A City Changing 2026: Funding Student Opportunity

Join RedefinED Atlanta’s 2026 Speaker Series event, an exploration of how funding, policy, and practice come together to shape outcomes for students across metro Atlanta and Georgia.
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A City Changing 2025

Our recent high-impact convening—A City Changing: Investing in the Educator Experience—spotlighted solutions for teacher retention and talent development.

See the highlights

News and Resource Highlights

Atlanta Schools Data Project

Quick and easy access to the most critical information about your local schools, presented in an engaging and accessible format. Ask questions, get answers, take action.

Explore the Data

Driving Change and Improving Systems

Atlanta Changemakers for Education (A.C.E.) Fellowship Builds a Network of Metro Atlanta Leaders

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Driving Lasting Change One School at a Time

Celebrating the Opening of AIM, Meliora, and Tapestry Clayton

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Explore how education funding shapes student opportunity, workforce readiness, and Georgia’s future.

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Dr. Keith Colbert

Dr. Keith A. Colbert has served in the Clayton County Public Schools (CCPS) system since 1998, starting his career as a fourth-grade teacher at Northcutt Elementary School. After a two-year tenure at Northcutt Elementary, he transferred to Morrow High School, where he served as a math teacher, special education teacher, and assistant head basketball coach. To gain insightful leadership experience, Dr. Colbert shadowed the administrative team, gained useful school leadership experience, and obtained a Master’s degree in Educational Leadership from Troy State University.

Dr. Colbert was selected as assistant principal of Mundy’s Mill High School (MMHS) in 2003 under the leadership of Dr. Anthony W. Smith. During his tenure at MMHS, he was instrumental in preparing the first class to graduate from the newly constructed school.

Dr. Colbert was recognized as a future principal leader in the district and was selected as one of twelve future leaders to participate in the principal preparation program, “A Forward-LEAP.” After completing this program, Dr. Colbert was appointed principal of Lovejoy Middle School in 2006, where he led more than 1,400 students. At the time, Lovejoy Middle School was the largest middle school in the district and considered underperforming. Dr. Colbert and his team led the school to substantial improvements in student achievement and were consequently selected as the 2008 Georgia PTSA Principal of the Year.

Driven to nurture a class of students from 6th grade to graduation, Dr. Colbert was appointed principal of Lovejoy High School in July 2009, where he served for seven years. He is one of the few principals in traditional high schools who is fortunate to have guided sixth graders to graduation with the Class of 2013. During his tenure at Lovejoy High School, the school was recognized as a Title I Rewards school in 2012 and 2013, SAT’s greatest gains school in 2012, and a USA News top high school in 2011. Dr. Colbert’s achievements led to a finalist for Principal of the Year for Clayton County Public Schools in 2011 and 2013.

In June of 2016, Dr. Keith A. Colbert was appointed Assistant Superintendent of Schools for Clayton County Public Schools.

Cayanna Good, Ph.D.

Dr. Cayanna Good serves as Deputy Commissioner for Innovation and Impact at the Technical College System of Georgia (TCSG), where she leads systemwide strategic planning and drives organizational improvement across all institutional pillars.
Previously, she served as Assistant Commissioner for the Office of Adult Education, overseeing statewide literacy initiatives, workforce alignment, and Georgia’s high school equivalency credentialing program.

Before joining TCSG, Dr. Good held leadership roles at the Governor’s Office of Student Achievement, the Georgia Department of Education, Teach For America, and TNTP. Her career began in the classroom in Houston — an experience that continues to ground her unwavering commitment to equity, access, and opportunity for all learners.

Dr. Good earned her bachelor’s degree from Fisk University, her master’s from Georgia State University, and her doctorate from Mercer University. She serves as Chairperson of the State Charter School Commission, she is a member of the Georgia Commission for Service and Volunteerism, a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., and a member of the Brookwood High School Local School Council.