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Roberta C. Furger

Senior Writer and Director of Storytelling

Roberta C. Furger manages LPI’s blog and leads the Institute’s emerging storytelling work to inform and advance policy, and its work with the Partnership for the Future of Learning. Read more >

Topic Educator Quality
Madelyn Gardner

Researcher and Policy Advisor

Madelyn Gardner is a member of LPI’s Early Childhood Learning Team and is a co-author of Untangling the Evidence on Preschool Effectiveness: Insights for Policymakers and On the Road to High-Quality Early Learning: Changing Children’s Lives. Read more >

Topic Early Childhood Learning
Janel George

Senior Policy Advisor

Janel George is a Senior Policy Advisor who co-leads the Equitable Resources and Access team and is the lead author of the report, The Federal Role and School Integration: Brown’s Promise and Present Challenges. Her work focuses on community schools, racial equity, education as a civil right, school choice, and other issues that shape equity and access in public schools. Read more >

Topics Equitable Resources and Access, The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)
DeAnna Duncan Grand

Director of Development and Policy Analyst

DeAnna Duncan Grand develops and stewards LPI’s relationships with philanthropic partners. She is also a member of LPI’s Deeper Learning and Policy teams. Read more >

Topic Deeper Learning
Laura E. Hernández

Senior Researcher

Laura E. Hernández is a Senior Researcher and co-leads LPI's Deeper Learning team. A former teacher in both traditional public and charter school settings in New York City and Los Angeles, her work now focuses on local, state, and federal education policies and their equitable and democratic impact on districts, schools, and communities. Read more >

Topic Deeper Learning
Shawnice Hood

Administration and Operations Manager

Shawnice Hood manages administrative, operational, and event planning in the Washington, DC office. Read more >
Amber Hu

Communications Associate

Amber Hu is a Communications Associate. Previously, she served as a Communications and Marketing Associate at the Center for High Impact Philanthropy, where she managed several of its communications channels. Read more >
Maria E. Hyler

Deputy Director, Washington DC Office and Senior Researcher

Maria E. Hyler is a member of LPI’s Educator Quality and Deeper Learning teams and is co-leading a forthcoming study on teacher preparation for deeper learning. Read more >

Topics Educator Quality, Deeper Learning
Maya Kaul

Research and Policy Assistant

Maya Kaul is a Research and Policy Assistant on the Deeper Learning team, and she also works on the California Performance Assessment Collaborative. Read more >
Tara Kini

Director of State Policy

Tara Kini serves as the Learning Policy Institute’s Director of State Policy. She has co-authored several LPI reports, including serving as lead author of a comprehensive analysis of the impact of experience on teacher effectiveness, Does Teaching Experience Increase Teacher Effectiveness? A Review of the Research. Read more >

Topics Educator Quality, Equitable Resources and Access, The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)

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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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