Kareem Weaver is a Co-Founder and leader of Full and Complete Reading is a Universal Mandate (FULCRUM) and a member of the Oakland and California NAACP Education Committees. He is currently working to improve literacy rates across the country by engaging stakeholders around reading instruction and the systematic structures needed to cultivate excellent outcomes for students.

Kareem previously led the Western Region for New Leaders, an educator development organization that supported the professional growth of teachers and administrators while preparing them to serve schools and communities desiring improved outcomes across a variety of measures. His background as an award-winning teacher and administrator in Oakland, California, and Columbia, South Carolina have provided important insight to his work supporting others.

Kareem has an undergraduate degree from Morehouse College, a master's in Clinical-Community Psychology from the University of South Carolina, and is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the National Council on Teacher Quality. His professional heroine is the late, great Marva Collins.

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