An experienced schoolteacher and educational administrator, Amy Purcell Vorenberg has led and advised schools for more than three decades. Over the course of her career, Amy Purcell Vorenberg has served as head of school with both Beauvoir Elementary School at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC, and The Philadelphia School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is currently building upon her master of science in early childhood education from Wheelock College as a student in Harvard University’s Certificate of Advanced Graduate Leadership program.
In addition to her work as a head of school, Ms. Vorenberg has sat on multiple independent school boards of directors and taught lower elementary classes with several independent schools in Massachusetts. To augment and inform her professional activities, she holds active membership organizations such as the National Association of Independent Schools and the Headmistresses Association of the East. She also belong to the Heads Network, an association of more than 200 North American schools that focuses on the education of girls and the development of female educational leaders.
Beauvoir, The Elementary School at the National Cathedral
July 2013
to June 2017
• Worked with St. Albans School, National Cathedral School and Washington National Cathedral to collaboratively manage the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation. • Redesigned Beauvoir’s administrative structure to support an enhanced culture of thinking, teaching and learning across the school. • Enhanced the teaching model across the school to build teacher capacity through team teaching. • Developed programming to support diversity, equity and inclusion across the school, including a new initiative Kaleidoscope (parent diversity group).
