David Singer

Entering urban education more than twenty years ago, David Singer started his career as a high school math teacher. While working relentlessly to change the life trajectories of high school students, Singer recognized the need to serve the same children in the same community with the same families, but at a much younger age. In 2009, Singer was selected for and engaged in the distinguished Building Excellent Schools Fellowship, a year-long, highly intensive leadership training program for future founders and leaders of game changing urban public charter schools. Singer spent the next two years with his founding board and team preparing tirelessly to launch University Prep, a K – 5th grade public charter school with the sole mission to educate every child for a four-year college degree and a life of
opportunity. Opening its doors in August of 2011 to 100 kindergarten and 1st grade scholars, University Prep has since grown to a network of three public charter schools on track to serve more than 1,000 children annually across the Denver Metro in PreK – 5 th grade with more than 800 alumni.

During his time as a Principal and now an Executive Director, Singer has had the opportunity to complete RELAY Graduate School of Education’s National Principal Fellowship Academy and is also an alumni of RELAY’s 2017-18 Leverage Leadership Institute. Over the 2018-19 and 2019-20 school years, David, alongside U Prep senior leaders, completed the Charter Network Accelerator programming. In the spring of 2023, alongside six other educators from across the country, Singer was recognized by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools as a 2023 Changemaker. He is currently serving on the Colorado League of Charter Schools Board of Directors where he is in his second year as Board Chair. Singer graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Hartford with a dual Bachelor’s degree in Secondary Education and Mathematics in 2003.