Dr. James Lane
Vice Chair
- Chief Executive Officer, Unlimited Instruction
- Former Virginia State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Dr. James Lane is Vice Chair of the Housman Learning Board of Directors and chief executive officer of Unlimited Instruction, formerly University Instructors, which provides instructional staffing, tutoring, and student services to school districts nationwide. He began his career as a classroom teacher and band director and went on to lead three Virginia school divisions, in Middlesex, Goochland, and Chesterfield counties, and was named 2017 Virginia Superintendent of the Year. In 2018 he became Virginia’s 25th Superintendent of Public Instruction. He then joined the U.S. Department of Education as Senior Advisor to Secretary Miguel Cardona and as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, where he performed the duties of Assistant Secretary and led the rollout of federal pandemic recovery funding for PK-12 schools. He has also served as chief executive of PDK International and Educators Rising. He holds a doctorate in education from the University of Virginia and has served on the boards of the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation and the Virginia Early Childhood Foundation.
Why I joined
“From the state superintendency to the U.S. Department of Education, I saw again and again that what happens in a child’s earliest years shapes everything a school system can achieve later. Housman Learning has done what few organizations have: turned decades of research on emotional development into practical tools educators actually use. I joined this board because this work deserves to reach every district in the country.”
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Dr. Michael Conner
Chairman of the Board
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Dr. Donna Wright
Director
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Chris Curran
Director
