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Lizzy Pecora
Lizzy Pecora is the Research Coordinator for Penn GSE’s Responsive Math Teaching Project: Building Instructional Leadership in Learning Network 2. Lizzy has extensive experience in non-profit programming management. She has overseen numerous school, community, and corporate partnerships for a variety of Philadelphia non-profits—providing programmatic expertise in arts education and literacy. Lizzy has a B.A. in Theatre and Cultural Sociology from Allegheny College and an M.A. in Theatre from Villanova University.
Katarina Suwak
Katarina Suwak has been the Senior Research Coordinator at the Consortium for Policy Research in Education since June 2018. Suwak has a background in the mental health field and has previously worked as a Child and Family Therapist in both non-profit and private practices in the Philadelphia area. She holds a B.A. in Psychology from Point Park University and an M.A. in Applied Developmental and Educational Psychology from Boston College.
Jon Crescenzo
Douglas Ready Leads Teacher College Arm of the Consortium for Policy Research in Education Into New Era
More than 30 years ago, the Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE) began analyzing the effectiveness of education policies and standards and providing evidence-based knowledge to improve education practice. Originally headquartered at Rutgers University, CPRE moved to its current headquarters at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education in 1995.
Brittany Hess
Brittany Hess has been a research coordinator at the Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE) since 2016.
Yolanda Green
Caroline B. Ebby
Caroline B. Ebby is Senior Researcher at the Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE) and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. She has extensive experience bridging the worlds of university-based research and school-based practice in mathematics education. Her research focuses on building teacher capacity, the use of learning trajectories to enhance formative assessment, and improving mathematics instruction through university-school partnerships. At Penn GSE, Dr.
