Malati Gopal

Senior Analyst and Improvement Specialist,

Fresno Unified School District

Malati Gopal is an organizational development and improvement specialist focusing on human centric and design thinking. She has worked as a program evaluation specialist and program developer with the World Health Organization, UNESCO, McKenzie Group Consulting, Georgetown University, Western Michigan University, and North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). Gopal works as a senior analyst and improvement specialist at the Fresno Unified School District.

updated 2020

Contributing topics

Continuous school improvement & support

Educational governance & policy

Educator workforce & effectiveness

Supporting students’ social-emotional, mental & physical health

Understanding, measuring & improving student outcomes

Contributing initiatives

COVID-19 Recovery

Publications by Malati Gopal

September 2020

Ayer Elementary School’s Resilient Conditions for Improvement

Pivoting Amid COVID-19

The educators of Ayer Elementary in Fresno Unified School District began their continuous improvement journey in 2016. The stability of their underlying organizational conditions to engage in improvement work—a shared purpose, mutual trust,…