At Education Resource Strategies, I wrote on topics such as strategic talent management, funding policy, and school design. My greatest interests in education reform are in teacher preparation, development, and career path. This lead me to BetterLesson, where I worked closely with co-founder Erin Osborn on an op-en about the future of education, as well as managing our blog. I am now the Director of Communications at Relay Graduate School of Education.
In the summer of 2011, I participated in News21, a project of the Carnegie-Knight Foundation to promote innovation in journalism. Along with about 15 alumni of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, we focused on the topic of aging in America, looking at everything from caregiving, to the aging workforce, to senior housing. I also did a short internship with MetroFocus at WNET in New York.
BetterLesson
Why ‘returning to normal’ isn’t the highest path for our schools
District Administration Magazine
Written on behalf of/ with Erin Osborn
BetterLesson Blog
Managing editor from April 2020 to July 2021
Education Resource Strategies
School Reform is Simpler – And More Complex – Than We Think
Education Next blog, April 2019
Written on behalf of/ with Karen Hawley Miles and Karen Baroody
Yes, Pay Teachers More. But States, Districts, and Schools Must Use Resource Strategically If Educators And Students Are to Thrive
The 74, April 2018
Written on behalf of/ with Karen Hawley Miles
Finding Time for Collaborative Planning
Education Resource Strategies, Jan 2018
With David Rosenberg and Rob Daigneau
Budget Hold’em for Schools Helps Memphis Principals Redesign Their Budgets
Education Resource Strategies blog, Nov 2017
Solo authored
To Drive Change, Realign Your Resources
Educational Leadership Magazine, June 2017
with Karen Hawley Miles
Igniting the Learning Engine: How school systems accelerate teacher effectiveness and student growth through Connected Professional Learning
Education Resource Strategies, April 2017
Primary editor of research report and executive summary; project manager for creating the coordinated suite of tools and resources; helped create the Connected Professional Learning brand concept
Building a Talent Decision Map
Education Resource Strategies report, Oct 2016
with Karen Hawley Miles and Chris Lewis
Widening the View: Proposals to Push California’s LCFF from Revolutionary to Transformational
Education Resource Strategies report, May 2016
with Stephen Frank
School Districts Have the Opportunity to Build Their Dream House
EdSource commentary, July 2015
with Karen Baroody
News21
News21 Website
- Family Caregiving (Wrote text)
- Graying Workplace (Edited audio for Why I Work gallery; some photo credits; contributed reporting)
Forbes.com: Family Caregivers
I wrote the text that accompanied each video in the series, published in Aug. 2011
- Part 1: “I Feel Good I Am Able to Help” (Co-produced video)
- Part 2: “We Haven’t Talked About Plan B”
- Part 3: “I Do as Much as I Can”
- Part 4: “I Can Tell She’s Tired”
- Part 5: “Thank God I’m Still Alive”
The Washington Post
- Graying Workplace (Sept 3, 2011) (Contributed reporting)
MetroFocus/ WNET NYC
- 7 (Not So Easy) Steps to Opening a Charter School (Sept 8, 2011) (Writing and photo credit)
- New York State’s Test Scores Flatline; City’s Creep Up (Aug 8. 2011) (Writing)
- Q and A with New York’s Civil War Re-enactors: The Joys of Wool Suits in Summer (Aug 16, 2011) (Reporting and photo credit)
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