About Scaling Curriculum Based Professional Learning

Meet our Partners

Four creators and publishers of high quality instructional materials and 11 professional learning providers are participating in the project and developing partnerships.

Meet our Team

RTI International serves as the grantee of record for this project.

Robert Sheffield of Scaleup Partners serves as a key advisor for the project. Scaleup Partners provides consultation and supports the development of partnerships to help ensure successful foundational business agreement hypotheses for each partnership.

Project Leadership

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Caryn Ward
Project Director, RTI International
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Michelle Woods
Project Manager, RTI International
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Sophia Farmer
Partner Support Coordinator, RTI International
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Jennifer Laird
Research Team Lead, RTI International
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Robert Sheffield
Key Advisor, Scaleup Partners

Intermediary Team

The RTI intermediary team leads the operationalization of the investment vision, supports the complex publisher-PL provider partnership, analyzes data for actionable insights, identifies and addresses IP and data sharing concerns, and conducts strategic reporting and dissemination.

Partner Support Team

  • Partner Liaisons

Intellectual Property & Business Agreement Support

  • Intellectual Property Lead
  • Intellectual Property Subject Matter Experts

Research Team

The RTI research team leads the execution of the learning agenda, including collecting needed data from the partners organization and districts, analyzing those data, producing reports and learning products.

  • Quantitative Lead
  • Qualitative Lead
  • Learning Products Coordinator
  • Data Management Lead
  • Research Supports