Driven 2 Educate

With a rich background in educational and business leadership, Donna Deeds is the queen of partnerships. Donna has served as assistant superintendent in the Durango School District in Durango Colorado, as an elementary school principal, and is the owner of Fast Schools, an education consulting organization. After seeing the big gap between what happens in high schools and what real world of work is expecting, she had the idea of marrying corporations, businesses and the community with education. That's how the CAPS program, which she lead, designed and executed, was founded. The Center for Advanced Professional Studies (CAPS) is designed to provide high school students the skills needed to succeed in the competitive college environment and global work force. CAPS is an example of how private industry, such as Black & Veatch, Cisco, Cerner, Sprint, Bayer, Burns and McDonnell, Ford Motor Company, Garmin and the public education system can partner to produce personalized learning experiences that educate the