Sandra Park

Sandra Park
Sandra Park
Co-Founder,
Improvement Collective

Sandra Park is a co-founder of the Improvement Collective, which is dedicated to helping education and other social sector organizations build their improvement capacity to solve problems in the field. She is also a senior fellow at the Carnegie Foundation, where she previously worked as the director of external offerings and partnerships as well as the director of the foundation's Building a Teaching Effectiveness Network (BTEN). Park previously taught elementary school in Oregon, Maryland, and Washington, DC, and was director of programs at First Graduate in San Francisco. She holds a Ph.D. in education policy from the University of California, Berkeley, and an Improvement Advisor certificate from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.

Contributing topics
Continuous school improvement & support
Educational governance & policy
Educator workforce & effectiveness
Understanding, measuring & improving student outcomes
Contributing initiatives
Continuous Improvement and Support Systems in California
Getting Down To Facts II
Sandra Park in the Media
: Report Published on Continuous Improvement in Education Practice
Publications by Sandra Park
Towards a Common Vision of Continuous Improvement for California
Under emerging policy structures in California, the responsibility for school improvement is increasingly placed on local school districts, with County Offices of Education (COEs) playing a critical support role. In this system, districts are…
Continuous Improvement in Practice
Calls for “continuous improvement” in California’s K–12 education system are central to current discussions about school improvement in the state. Yet, definitions of continuous improvement vary, and knowledge of what continuous improvement looks…
Disparities in charter school resources—the influence of state policy and community
Disparities in Charter School Resources
The Influence of State Policy and Community
Recent findings show that students attending charter schools in the United States achieve at comparable or lower levels to those enrolled in regular public schools, perhaps due to uneven quality and disparities in the levels of resources acquired by…
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Snapshots of Reform
District Efforts to Raise Achievement across Diverse Communities in California
In California, policymakers and educators had already turned their attention to addressing inequities in student achievement with the passage of the Public School Accountability Act (PSAA) in 1999. PSAA provided a framework for learning with…