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I am a researcher, former elementary teacher recognized for multiple teaching awards, and policy advisor. My research examines how education systems improve foundational teaching and learning in resource-constrained settings: how classroom practices produce stronger learning, how teachers and leaders turn reforms into workable routines, and how institutions sustain those improvements over time. A central theme of my work is understanding how education systems can expand opportunity and improve learning, particularly for learners facing poverty, linguistic exclusion, or other barriers to educational success. My aim is to generate evidence that helps schools and education systems improve children’s lives.
My research is organized around three connected questions that together trace how educational improvement emerges, takes hold, and endures.
My research is organized around three connected questions that together trace how educational improvement emerges, takes hold, and endures.
01. What Improves Learning?
01. What Improves Learning?
How language, instructional design, and classroom conditions shape student learning, particularly in foundational literacy.
02. How Change Happens?
02. How Change Happens?
How teachers, school leaders, and education organizations turn reforms into workable classroom practices and routines.
03. What Sustains Improvement?
03. What Sustains Improvement?
How education systems build the capacity, alignment, and evidence-use practices needed to sustain improvement over time.
How education systems build the capacity, alignment, and evidence-use practices needed to sustain improvement over time.
I combine experimental and quasi-experimental designs with qualitative inquiry to examine how education reforms work in practice. My research spans sub-Saharan Africa and Asia, where I work with ministries, universities, and international organizations on foundational learning, teacher development, assessment, and education systems. In my current role at the World Bank, I advise governments and country teams on education reform and evidence use.
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