Marcy Rachamim Jackson, MA, CPP, CFD
Founder, Resh Institute For Educational Leadership
Marcy Rachamim Jackson, MA, CPP, CFD is the founder of Resh Institute For Educational Leadership and the lead consultant for OLIVEZ. Mrs. Jackson is a decorated education leader with nearly 30 years of education experience.
She has led innovative education and industry partnerships, programs, and initiatives across workforce development, higher education, secondary education, special education, online learning, business, nonprofit, prison, and faith settings.
Mrs. Jackson is a special education equity and justice champion, aware of the disability education ecosystem, and is highly sensitive to the disparities that exist uniquely for Black students with special needs.
Implicit in her Hebrew name “Rachamim”, meaning compassion, Mrs. Jackson applies compassionate listening, critical humility, genuine curiosity, and fearless engagement for clients and learners of all ages and stages.
Mrs. Jackson is a Special Education Advocate and serves as an expert witness for students ages 3 to 21 with disabilities, gifts, delays, and special needs to receive appropriate identification and education services. She speaks on work-life balance, parenting, equity, her testimonies of healing miracles, strategies for successful advocacy, and transformative solutions for equity and justice in special education.
Mrs. Jackson has innovated dozens of frameworks and owns copyrights to her publishings. She is the author of Educational Leadership for Parents© (2012); for parents striving to navigate their child’s education; P.A.R.E.N.T.S. Life Skills, Literacy & Leadership Framework for Social Change© (2015) for new, returning, and reentry parents.
She is also the author of Pour the Water: Transformative Solutions for Equity & Justice in Special Education (2024), which addresses frameworks for antiracist practice and policy for parents, physicians, providers, policymakers, and related professionals.
She innovated the first in the nation Developmental Driver Education (2007), for Montgomery College in Maryland, and is the Founding Coordinator for SEEUS: Special Education Excellence for Underserved Students (2020), an equitable advocacy initiative with Weinfeld Education Group through International Partners for Black Students with Special Needs (BSSN).
Mrs. Jackson has an MA in Education Leadership and BA in International Relations, with certifications in Program Planning (CPP), Faculty Development (CFD), Special Needs Advocacy, Facilitative Leadership for Social Change, Diversity Equity & Inclusion, Nonprofit Leadership, Healthy Beginnings, Montessori Teacher Studies, Quality Matters, and more.
Among many honors, in 1993, she was named Outstanding Woman of the Year from Towson University.
Thousands of colleagues, professionals, parents, and students have benefited from her partnerships, services, and lived experiences.
“Marcy Jackson challenges herself and partners to maximize potential, encouraging creativity and innovation. She listens, leads, and serves the process, and the people who devise, produce, and operate initiatives and traditions for profit and progress.”
– VeTalle Fusilier, Imagineer and Design
“Thank you for taking the time to send Marcy our way. She was engaging, on-topic, and well-prepared for our community.”
– Estefani Rondon, Director of Student Affairs & Elementary School, Oneness-Family School
“Marcy Jackson is an excellent presenter on the intersection of race and neurodiversity. Her new book, Pour the Water, focuses on this topic. We just had her do one hour presentation for our group and it was outstanding.”
– Rich Weinfield, Executive Director, Weinfield Education Group LLC
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