James Osborn
Position/Title:
National Director, New Start
James Osborn manages the day-to-day operations of our New Start work. He came to EDWorks’ from our parent company, KnowledgeWorks Foundation, in 2003 as a coach for small school leaders in the Ohio High School Transformation Initiative. James was recruited to be the full-time staff Field Manager for OHSTI in 2004, where he led a group of nationally-recognized school change coaches and oversaw the field-based application of OHSTI’s coaching and technical assistance curricula. James has more than 30 years of experience in public education, having served a teacher, coach, middle and high school principal and as a hearing officer for the Columbus City Schools. He has presented at numerous educational conferences on high school reform and was selected as Ohio’s most Distinguished Secondary Principal of the year in 1993.
