Dr. Barbara Downey

“Dr. Barbara Downey, Regional Manager, American Quality Schools. Dr. Downey is the Regional Manager for Discovery Charter School. Her Charter School experience includes serving as Interim Director and Assistant Director of the Office of Charter Schools at Ball State University. She successfully served five years as a public school administrator. She also worked as a faculty member developing school leaders during her tenure at higher education institutions and at the Indiana Principal Leadership Academy. Dr. Downey has diverse experience teaching in Indiana schools, working with elementary and middle school classrooms, teaching gifted and talented students, and also supporting candidates seeking school administration certification/licensure at the University of Indianapolis and Indiana State University. Dr. Downey completed her Ph.D.in Educational Administration at Indiana State University earning top honors in the Department of Educational Leadership and Foundations for her dissertation.”