The Beginning of a Calling
LaRonda Moore didn’t stumble into education. She was called to it.
In 2000, she walked into an 11th grade English classroom at St. Martin dePorres High School in Detroit, Michigan, and never looked back. From the very beginning, teaching was never just about content delivery. It was about possibility and what happens when a young person is seen, challenged, and believed in. Those early years also revealed something else: LaRonda was a leader. As yearbook editor and varsity cheerleading coach, she discovered that her gift wasn’t only in the classroom. It was in building people and cultivating community.
Building the Foundation
For the next fourteen years, LaRonda honed her craft as a high school English teacher at some of Detroit’s most prominent charter schools, never settling and always growing. She took on roles as department head, advanced placement teacher, and literacy coach, building a reputation as an educator who could develop both students and colleagues. She was the kind of teacher other teachers came to. The kind leaders noticed.
She was also quietly becoming a scholar. The practitioner and the researcher were never separate identities for LaRonda. They were always two expressions of the same driving question: What does education owe the people it serves, and is it delivering?
Stepping Into Leadership
In 2014, LaRonda made the leap from classroom to school leadership, serving as an assistant principal and dean of academics. Three years later, she moved into central office, taking on roles as an instructional coordinator and director of literacy, shaping systems rather than just classrooms.
By 2019, she was serving as Chief Academic Officer at Old Redford Academy in Detroit. And in 2021, she accepted the role that would define the next chapter of her career: Superintendent.
The Superintendency — A Turnaround Built on Vision
As Superintendent of Old Redford Academy, LaRonda didn’t inherit an easy assignment. She accepted it anyway.
She spearheaded a bold two-year turnaround model built on a four-phase strategic plan of Stabilize, Transition, Develop/Grow, and Sustain, designed to address critical concerns, reset culture, build talent, and secure long-term viability. Under her leadership, the Academy underwent a comprehensive rebranding, deepened community partnerships, and recommitted itself to student-centered academic excellence.
It was complex, layered, and consequential work. It was also exactly the kind of work LaRonda was built for.
The Scholar Behind the Leader
Throughout every role as teacher, coach, department head, director, and superintendent, LaRonda was also a student.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from Oakland University, a Master of Arts in Teaching from the University of Michigan, and an Education Specialist in Leadership from Oakland University. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Educational Leadership at Western Michigan University, where her doctoral work continues to deepen her understanding of systems, equity, and the conditions that allow people and institutions to grow.
For LaRonda, the pursuit of the doctorate is not a credential chase. It is the natural expression of who she has always been: someone who refuses to stop asking harder questions.
Building What Didn’t Exist
At every stage of her journey, LaRonda noticed the gaps. The resources that weren’t there, the support systems that hadn’t been built, the frameworks that existed in theory but not in practice. Rather than waiting for someone else to fill them, she built.
She founded EduImpact Management Solutions to provide the kind of coaching and consulting she wished had existed for leaders navigating complex educational landscapes. She launched The Paper Pastel Publishing Co. and created The GROWTH Framework™ Guided Journal Series to give visionaries, educators, and lifelong learners the tools to grow from the inside out. She stepped onto stages as a speaker because the conversations that needed to happen weren’t happening loudly enough.
As a primary designer, researcher, and creator, she is also currently developing Read & RISE, a research-based Early Childhood Literacy Intervention System built as a joint venture. Read & RISE reflects LaRonda’s enduring commitment to literacy as a foundation for equity and her belief that the earliest readers deserve the most intentional systems.
LaRonda Moore is not building a legacy. She is living one, in real time, with intention, and with every person she brings along the way.
LaRonda Moore, Ed.S. 