Policy & Advocacy

Executive Director

Kinsey Martin serves as the Executive Director of Policy and Advocacy for Bend-La Pine Schools. She advances civil rights and justice in our school system through family and community partnerships, and through policy design that reflects shared values of dignity and fairness. She also works to ensure a collective commitment to these values via the development of accountability systems for reporting and repairing harm.

Kinsey has nearly two decades in public education, as a bilingual elementary teacher, instructional coach, and administrator. Kinsey is a graduate of Bend-La Pine Schools and has two children who are also students in this district.

Director of Multilingual Services - ELL/Title III

As the Multilingual Services Director, Liza supervises K–12 Language Specialists, oversees Title III English Language Learner (ELL) case management, and leads districtwide professional development in the Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol framework and co-teaching for ELLs. Prior to her current role, she served as a K–12 English Language Development Instructional Coach. She previously spent 21 years as a classroom teacher, teaching English Language Development and Spanish as a World Language in New York City, New Jersey, Colorado, California, and Bend–La Pine. She is the proud mother of twin boys and enjoys traveling, studying languages, and spending time outdoors hiking, camping, mountain biking, and snowboarding.