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Stephan Turnipseed

Board of Directors

Stephan Turnipseed is Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer, Pitsco Education; the President Emeritus of LEGO Education North America; and former Executive Director of Strategic Partnerships for LEGO Education. Read more >
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Senior Advisor

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. Read more >
Patrick M. Shields

Executive Director

Patrick M. Shields is a member of LPI’s Early Childhood Learning Team, and is one of the co-authors of The Road to High-Quality Early Learning: Lessons from the States. Read more >

Topics Early Childhood Learning, Educator Quality, Equitable Resources and Access
Julie Adams

Research and Policy Associate

Julie Adams is a Research and Policy Associate on the Deeper Learning and Educator Quality teams, and works on the Reimagining College Access Initiative. Read more >
Titilayo Tinubu Ali

Consultant

Titilayo Tinubu Ali is a consultant for LPI and served as a Senior Researcher and Policy Analyst. She is one of the co-authors of The Road to High-Quality Early Learning: Lessons from the States. Read more >
Jessica Barajas

Research and Policy Associate

Jessica Barajas is a Research and Policy Associate at LPI. Prior to joining LPI, Barajas worked as an early childhood educator at the Stanford Bing Nursery School and at The Primary School in East Palo Alto. Both schools are dedicated to meeting the social, emotional, cognitive, physical, and academic needs of the child. Read more >
Joseph Bishop

Joseph Bishop served as a Senior Policy Advisor for the Learning Policy Institute, and is now the Director of the Center for the Transformation of Schools (CTS) at UCLA.
Kathryn Bradley

Research and Policy Associate

Kathryn Bradley is a Research and Policy Associate on LPI’s Deeper Learning team. Read more >
Dion Burns

Senior Researcher

Dion Burns is a member of the Deeper Learning team. He presently conducts quantitative and qualitative research into issues of educational equity and the policies and practices that support the development of deeper learning competencies. Read more >

Topic Deeper Learning
Angela Button

Executive Assistant

Angela Button is the Executive Assistant to President and CEO, Linda Darling-Hammond. Read more >

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Closing the Opportunity Gap: How Positive Outlier Districts in California Are Pursuing Equitable Access to Deeper Learning

Sep 10 2019

This report examines the commonalities among seven diverse "positive outlier" school districts in which students are achieving at higher-than-predicted levels. The seven districts are among more than a hundred California school districts in which African American, Latino/a, and White students achieved at higher-than-predicted levels, controlling for their socioeconomic status.

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Preparing Teachers to Support Social and Emotional Learning

May 21 2019

Well-implemented programs designed to foster social and emotional learning (SEL) are associated with positive outcomes, ranging from better test scores and higher graduation rates to improved social behavior. This LPI study examines San Jose State University's successful teacher preparation program and a California school district's in-service program that incorporate SEL instruction in an effort to inform policymakers, practitioners, and teacher educators about the components of strong, SEL-focused teacher preparation and development systems.

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California’s Positive Outliers: Districts Beating the Odds

May 16 2019

LPI studied 156 California school districts of significant size in which students of color, as well as White students, consistently achieve at higher levels than students from similar racial, ethnic, and economic backgrounds. What are these "positive outliers" doing to raise achievement and support students of all backgrounds?

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