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Jenny Cunneen is the Director of Leadership Development for Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) in Northern Virginia. She has spent over 20 years in FCPS as an elementary school teacher leader, assistant principal, principal, and central office administrator supporting teacher induction and now leadership development.

Jenny has been a member of the Thinking Collaborative community since 2010 and is a Training Associate for both Cognitive Coaching and Adaptive Schools.



In her work in her own district and across the country, Jenny's identity is that of a coach whose goal is building capacity and efficacy in the students, adults, and families she serves each day.



Jenny has presented at numerous national conferences including the Learning Forward Conference, the New Teacher Center Symposium, and the Teaching and Learning Conference, and is a contributing author to the book Transformative Talk: Cognitive Coaches Share Their Stories.



Jenny received her B.S. in Elementary Education from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and her M.Ed. in Administration and Supervision from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. She lives in Alexandria with her husband and two elementary school daughters. Jenny’s core values of building relationships, building capacity and efficacy in others, and fostering joy in our work lead everything she does.