Archie E. Hill
Archie E. Hill, Ph.D., is a Gulf Comprehensive Center (Gulf CC) staff member supporting district and state staff in implementing and evaluating educational initiatives. He supports the implementation of Florida’s new school standards and the building of Florida’s leadership capacity, culture, and infrastructure.
Dr. Hill provides professional development in the areas of school improvement and effective family and community engagement to improve literacy through partnerships in rural and disadvantaged communities. Additionally, he serves as an evaluator for the Nevada Department of Education’s Native Youth Community Project grant, where he assists in designing survey instruments and protocols, conducting qualitative and quantitative data analyses, and preparing reports.
Prior to his work with the Gulf CC, he worked on the Region 7 Comprehensive Center 2019-2024, where he was a project co-Lead and State Liaison for Mississippi’s Equitable Access to Effective Teachers initiative to build capacity and facilitate progress in implementing the Professional Growth System and Orientation to School Leadership modules. For the Southeast Comprehensive Center 2015-2019, he was a member of a team that developed surveys, interviews, and focus group protocols for the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction’s virtual public schools pilot program and Global-Reading Schools initiative, designed to gather data from students, parents, board members, administrators, and teachers.
With experience in research design, data collection, and quantitative as well as qualitative analytic approaches, Dr. Hill has served as a U.S. Department of Education Magnet Schools Assistance Program compliance monitor for FY2013 grantees as well as for other grants.
EDUCATION: Ph.D. in education from George Mason University; M.S. in applied sociology from Norfolk State University; EMBA from University of South Florida; B.A. University of Virginia.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE: Program management; Educational Equity; Literacy and Reading; Family and community literacy partnerships; School Improvement; Research Methodology; Project-based learning; and Evaluation.