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Rose Community Foundation Staff
Phillip
A. Gonring
Senior Program Officer
As senior program officer at Rose Community Foundation, Phil Gonring directs the Foundation’s Education area, which oversees programs and grantmaking efforts that emphasize teacher quality. Since 1999, he has led the philanthropic effort to transform the teacher-compensation system in Denver Public Schools, an effort that culminated in taxpayer approval of an annual $25 million mill levy override. He is also principal author of a book on the subject, Pay-for-Performance Teacher Compensation: An Inside View of Denver’s ProComp Plan, which was published by Harvard Education Press in August 2007.
A former teacher and administrator, Gonring was a founding lead teacher (co-principal) of the Rocky Mountain School of Expeditionary Learning, a K-12 public school of choice and joint program of Denver, Littleton, Douglas County and Cherry Creek School Districts. He was also an English teacher in George Washington High School’s International Baccalaureate Program. He has consulted in schools across the country, including those in Seattle, San Antonio, New York and Boston, and published writings on a variety of education issues.
Gonring is the immediate past president and co-chair of the board of directors for Grantmakers for Education, and former chair of the board of the Odyssey Charter School. His two children attend Denver Public Schools.
Phillip A. Gonring