Our Team
Mosaica Turnaround Partners’ highly experienced team of educators and administrators includes superintendents, school principals, district turnaround experts, and leaders in curriculum and professional development. We have more than 100 education professionals available to support turnaround efforts countrywide.
MTP Leadership
Gene Eidelman Co-Founded Mosaica in 1997 and currently serves as President. In thirteen years, Mosaica has provided quality education for over 40,000 students, and currently operates 79 school programs in eight states and the District of Columbia in the United States and in the Middle East. Mosaica’s Turnaround Partners division works with school districts to improve under-performing schools, and Mercury Online Academy provides public and private blended learning programs. Mosaica operates private school in Dubai and is planning to open additional private schools and on-line programs in UAE, Saudi Arabia, India and China in 2011. Gene and his wife Dr. Dawn Eidelman were awarded the 2009 James P. Boyle Entrepreneurial Leadership Award from the Education Industry Association for their unwavering commitment to innovation in education. Gene was selected as One of the Ten Outstanding People of the World by Junior Chamber International in 1999. Gene did his undergraduate work at the University of Southern California. He is a member of the board of the Georgia Charter School Association and the Coalition for Educational Choice.
John Q. Porter is the Chief Operating Officer of Mosaica Turnaround Partners. Mr. Porter previously served as Superintendent of Schools in Oklahoma City and Deputy Superintendent and Chief Information Officer for the Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland. He has extensive experience in using technology and data to improve student performance. He has a B.A. from Catholic University and a J.D. from Ohio State. Mr. Porter is a Broad Fellow, graduated from the Broad Academy for Superintendents, and is also a graduate of the Harvard University Public Education Leadership Program
Robert Lewis Bastress, Ph.D. is the Director of Turnaround Leader Institute. Dr. Bastress has led several key projects for large urban and suburban school districts; facilitated the creation of leadership standards which are now being utilized by New Leaders for New Schools residents and principals nationally. He has developed leadership, administration and professional development initiatives for a number of leading education organizations including Montgomery County Public Schools, New Leaders for New Schools, George B. Thomas Learning Academy and The Stupski Foundation. Dr. Bastress served as a Faculty Adjunct at the University of Maryland and taught courses on education administration and supervision courses at John Hopkins University. He has a B.A. and Master of Education from Loyola College and a Doctor of Philosophy in Education Administration from the University of Maryland.
Dr. Ebbie Parsons, PhD comes to MTP from UKA Teacher U where he was Founding Director of Human Capital. As the Deputy Chief Operating Officer for the Hartford School System in Connecticut, he led successful reform in the district’s budgeting methodology and student assignment processes. He was one of highly select group of MBAs, PhDs and MPPs chosen to participate in the Broad Residency Program for transition from business leadership to leadership in urban education reform. He holds a BS from Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, an MBA from the University of Minnesota, an Executive Certificate in Performance Measurement for Effective Management of Nonprofit Organizations from the John F. Kennedy School of Government/Harvard Business School and a Doctoral degree from the University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Graduate School of Education.
