Hurst Educational Services
As a consultant with extensive experience with college-readiness in Texas, Tracey K. Hurst established Hurst Educational Services as the premier support for accelerated instruction in the early college high school model. Based on 15 years of experience as an educational consultant in Texas, and over a decade teaching secondary mathematics and social studies, Tracey is intimately acquainted with the daily trials confronting both students and educators. Through conversations with campus leaders and teachers, regular visits to classrooms of client districts, and a deep commitment to relevant educational research, she has responded with actionable protocols and systems to help all students learn. The result of these experiences is an exciting new initiative - The Unboot Camp! - meant to make success with TSIA 2.0 part of the normal culture of your campus (rather than one more thing, another remediation, or another Saturday).
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Tracey K. Hurst
Tracey K. Hurst is an accomplished educator whose career has spanned multiple leadership roles. Currently serving as an independent consultant, over the past 15 years she has served 12 of the 20 largest school districts in Texas and numerous other ISDs across the state. Her work supports TSIA 2.0, the Early College High School network, as well as elementary, middle, and high schools, focusing on instructional leadership, systems design, progress monitoring, and accelerated instruction. Additionally, she collaborates with central office personnel on leadership development and the successful transition from the classroom to district support roles.
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Mrs. Hurst is well known in the early college high school community both for her work with Dr. Patricia Uribe and the guidebooks to aid in design, as well as on site work with over 100 different campuses on instructional coherence and reaching the at-risk learner. She has authored two books for students, The Best Version of You!
and Making Collaborative Groups Work! Both are designed to help early college students navigate the fast transition to college student. Support classes like MAPS, Advisory, and AVID classes have used her products to educate students about the soft skills associated with college readiness and the steps to take in high school to help with college transition.
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In addition to work for Texas Education Agency’s regional service centers 10 and 13, Mrs. Hurst worked as a consultant for Educate Texas from 2009-2014 under a TEA grant to support early college high schools. Prior to that, she served as the Advanced Academics Director in Richardson ISD, where she also was a classroom mathematics and social studies teacher, as well as head volleyball coach. During a hiatus from education, Mrs. Hurst was the director of a non-profit affiliated with the Smithsonian Institution.
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Tracey holds a bachelor’s degree in Urban Planning from Binghamton University in New York State and a master’s degree in Curriculum & Instruction from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. She is an avid reader, world traveler, and proud mom to two college students. She lives with her husband and children in Plano.
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Education
• Master of Education, Curriculum and Instruction
George Mason University
• Bachelor of Arts, Urban Planning
Binghamton University
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