Dr. Pam Moran currently serves as a Principal Leadership Advisor with Socol Moran Partners, Executive Director of the Virginia School Consortium for Learning, and co-chair of the Virginia Leads Innovation Network. She served as the Superintendent of Albemarle County Public Schools for 13 years until she retired in 2018.

Pam is a leading advocate of an educational model that prepares students for “success in this century, not the last one.”  She emphasizes the value of student-led research, project-based learning and contemporary learning spaces that promote collaboration, creativity, analytical problem-solving, critical thinking, and communications competencies among all students.

She believes that educators must grow their capacity to find and support the assets and strengths within every learner and, in doing so, to activate students’ inherent voices and agency as they  own and embrace learning pathways to adulthood.

Pam currently provides consultation to schools, districts, and states across the country to support the mission that every young person accomplish the learning they need and want so they can thrive in their homes, communities, and, eventually, in the workforce. She has been a featured keynoter at regional, state, and national conferences speaking in support of future-focused education through deeper learning, active engagement, and equity,

During Pam’s tenure, Albemarle County Public Schools became one of the top performing school divisions for students in the state and nation. In 2017, a national survey organization ranked Albemarle County Public Schools in the top three of all school divisions in Virginia and among the top two percent of all school divisions in the country.

A past gubernatorial appointee to the State Council on Higher Education for Virginia, she was selected by her peers across the Commonwealth as Virginia’s 2016 Superintendent of the Year.  She subsequently was one of four statewide superintendents of the year to be selected as a finalist for 2016 National Superintendent of the Year. She also was selected by eSchool Media as one of its national Tech-Savvy Superintendents of the Year and under her leadership, the school division received the Virginia Governor’s Tech Innovation Award.

In 2016, Pam was selected to serve on the Aspen Institute’s National Commission on Social, Emotional and Academic Development. She is a member of the MakerEdorg Board and has delivered several TED Talks on the impact of creating a contemporary learning environments for students, one shaped around a student-centered project-based instructional model.

Pam also has appeared on the cover of Education Week’s Digital Directions magazine as a “National Mover and Shaker” for her advocacy of a curricular digital integration model, which was  featured in a video series profile by Edutopia.  In 2018, she was profiled in Forbes magazine for her leadership.

She is a past President of the Virginia Association of School Superintendents, Women Educational Leaders of Virginia and the Virginia Association of Science Supervisors and has held leadership positions with the regional Chamber of Commerce, the Charlottesville-Albemarle Public Education Fund, and the University of Virginia-Public Schools Educational Partnership.

Her career in public education began as a high school science teacher.  She subsequently served as a central office science coordinator and staff developer, elementary school principal, director of instruction, assistant superintendent for instruction, and adjunct instructor in educational leadership for the University of Virginia’s School of Education. She holds a B.S. in Biology from Furman University and Master’s and Doctoral degrees from the University of Virginia.  Pam also is an alumnus of the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business Executive Educators Leadership Institute.