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. Park earned a PhD in education policy from the University of California, Berkeley. She holds an Improvement Advisor certificate from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.

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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

December 8, 2017 : Report Published on Continuous Improvement in Education Practice

Publications by Sandra Park

February 2004

Voices From the Field

Educators Respond to Accountability

The Educator Responses to Accountability Project (ERAP) explores the impact of public school accountability on California teachers' and administrators' classroom practices and professionalism. State and federal policymakers support accountability,…

April 2003

Charter Schools and Inequality

National Disparities in Funding, Teacher Quality, and Student Support

Charter schools were intended to close the achievement gap and create tight-knit communities that motivate students and teachers. The assumption is that charter schools can avoid the disparities that public schools face. Recent data from the…