As Senior Director of Leadership Development, Dr. Danalyn Hypolite is responsible for supporting BES fellows in the areas of School Design and Community Engagement and has successfully coached fellows across the southern region to charter approval. Since 2021, Danalyn has been a part of the BES Fellowship Team and since 2022, has designed and led BES’s Community Co-Design Fellowship to include a focus on strategic planning and research-based methods for qualitative data collection and analysis.
Dr. Hypolite is a native of New Orleans, Louisiana, and a third-generation public educator. Over the past 23 years in education, Danalyn has served her community as a middle and high school teacher, a charter school principal, founding principal, as well as both a district and state charter authorizer in Louisiana. In 2017, Danalyn joined the Charter Accountability team at NOLA Public Schools (NOLA-PS), the only all-charter school district in the country, where her team successfully transitioned 78 charter schools back to local governance from the state and also created the district’s first Charter School Accountability Framework. While at NOLA-PS, Dr. Hypolite’s qualitative research study served as the catalyst for redesigning the district’s charter authorization standards, hence supporting the district’s strategic vision of creating a more high-quality system of charter schools. Just prior to joining the BES team, Danalyn served as the Deputy Assistant Superintendent of Equity, Inclusion and Opportunities at the Louisiana Department of Education, where she supervised the team conducting oversight and accountability of Louisiana’s 50, state-authorized charter schools. Dr. Hypolite has earned a B.S. in Physics from Xavier University of Louisiana, an M.Ed. in Educational Leadership from Trinity Washington University, and an Ed.D. in Executive Leadership from The University of Holy Cross.
Supporting the powerful connection between high-quality schools, the effectiveness of their leaders, and the economic advancement these schools provide for communities, is why Danalyn enjoys her work at BES.
