Zoe Duskin ’97
At Burke's, Zoe chairs the Equity & Inclusion Committee and is a member of the Head Evaluation Committee.
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Zoe Duskin ’97 is Assistant Head of School at The Girls' Middle School. Since her first teaching job at Aim High's Chinatown campus in San Francisco, Zoe has spent the majority of her career in public schools as a teacher, instructional coach, and administrator. Previously, Zoe served as Senior Director at ACE Charter Schools, where she set the vision for curriculum and instruction and coached school leaders at three middle schools and a high school. She was the founding principal of the Inspired Teaching Demonstration School, a public charter school in Washington, D.C., which hosts a teacher credentialing and professional development program to support inquiry-based instruction and student engagement throughout D.C.'s public schools. After returning home to California, she served as Site Director of College Track San Francisco, a non-profit committed to empowering young people to become the first in their families to graduate from college.
Zoe holds a Bachelor's degree from Barnard College and a Master's in Policy, Organization, and Leadership Studies from Stanford's Graduate School of Education. She is also a proud member of Burke's fabulous class of 1997 and the mother of three sons.
Burke's mission is to educate, encourage and empower girls. Our school combines academic excellence with an appreciation for childhood so that students thrive as learners, develop a strong sense of self, contribute to community, and fulfill their potential, now and throughout life.
Burke's admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.