Julia E. Koppich

Julia Koppich
Julia E. Koppich
President,
J. Koppich & Associates

Julia E. Koppich is president of J. Koppich & Associates, a San Francisco-based education consulting firm. She has served as a policy consultant for numerous state and federal organizations, including the U.S. Department of Education, the National Center on Performance Incentives, the Education Commission of the States, the National Governors Association, and the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. She was also director and deputy director of PACE. She has been a principal researcher on studies of urban school change, teacher peer review, and the impact of federal policy on states and local school districts. She is the author of numerous articles and the co-author of two books: A Union of Professionals and United Mind Workers: Unions and Teaching in the Knowledge Society. Dr. Koppich received her PhD in educational administration and policy analysis from the University of California, Berkeley.

updated 2020

Contributing topics
Access, quality & alignment in early childhood education
College access & postsecondary success
Continuous school improvement & support
Education finance
Educational governance & policy
Educator workforce & effectiveness
Supporting students’ social-emotional, mental & physical health
Understanding, measuring & improving student outcomes
Contributing initiatives
Continuous Improvement and Support Systems in California
CORE-PACE Research Partnership
COVID-19 Recovery
Getting Down To Facts II
LCFF Research Collaborative
Commentary by Julia E. Koppich
: Strong, Collaborative Labor–Management Relations Can Move Postpandemic Education Forward
: Getting Serious About Teacher Evaluation: A Fresh Look at Peer Assistance and Review
Julia E. Koppich in the Media
: Toward a Grand Vision: Early Implementation of California's Local Control Funding Formula
: California’s Local Control Funding Formula
: California’s Beginning Teachers: The Bumpy Path to a Profession
: California’s Beginning Teachers: the Bumpy Path to a Profession
: Getting Serious About Teacher Evaluation
Publications by Julia E. Koppich
Bumpy Path Into a Profession
What California's Beginning Teachers Experience
In California, as elsewhere, state policy anticipates that aspiring teachers will follow a uniform, multistep path into the profession. It assumes they will complete a preparation program and earn a preliminary credential, take a teaching job and be…
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Alternative Teacher Compensation
A Primer
A new PACE report has been released in conjunction with our Learning About New Forms of Teacher Compensation Conference on March 30 and 31, 2009. Written by Julie Koppich and Jessica Rigby, this policy primer is designed to provide baseline…
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Reshaping Teacher Policies to Improve Student Achievement
In this PACE Policy Brief, Julia E. Koppich puts forward a set of policy recommendations aimed at improving the quality of teaching in California’s schools. She argues that California can help to bring about sustained improvement in teaching and…
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Reshaping Personnel Policies to Improve Student Achievement
In a PACE document prepared for the Convening on California Education Policy on October 19, 2007, Julia E. Koppich and Amy Gerstein present a set of policy recommendations that address issues related to human capital and personnel in California’s…