Monique Martin maintains more than 20 years of experience in education focused on continuous school improvement and school turnaround, resulting in bridging gaps in education for urban and suburban school districts. While serving diverse school communities, her leadership supported increasing student achievement for underperforming student groups and intersecting categories, decreasing disproportionality, cultivating school culture and climate, increasing and sustaining parent and community engagement, and improving educator effectiveness.

Prior to serving Delaware stakeholders, she fulfilled instrumental roles in Maryland, Ohio, and Virginia, including as an award-winning leader, principal, assistant principal, professional developer, academic coach, new teacher and urban principal mentor, collective bargaining team negotiator, team leader, teacher, child and family advocate, small business owner, community activist, and national consultant.

Monique is currently pursuing an educational doctorate for Urban Educational Leadership from Morgan State University; and earned a Master of Science graduate degree from Johns Hopkins University in School Administration and Supervision, and an undergraduate Bachelor of Science degree from Bowie State University in Elementary Education.