Lumina Foundation. USAID. Gates Foundation. Vicki Phillips, director of Education, College Ready in the United States Program, oversees work to improve early learning in Washington state; to ensure U.S. high school students graduate ready for success in college, career, and life; and to improve access to college. Phillips has committed her career to increasing educational opportunities for young people. Prior to joining the foundation, she was superintendent of Portland Public Schools in Portland, Ore. Before her move to Oregon, Phillips was secretary of education and chief state school officer for the state of Pennsylvania and served as superintendent of the Lancaster, Pa., school district.
She has worked with the U.S. Office of Education in Washington, D.C., and has been a middle and high school teacher. Phillips earned a bachelor's degree in elementary education and a master's degree in school psychology from Western Kentucky University. College-Ready Education. In each of our areas of focus, we share research, insights, and tools with states, school districts, and other partners to help them improve teaching and learning.
We also work to foster greater collaboration so effective programs can be expanded and valuable insights and ideas from specific states, districts, and charter management organizations can be broadly shared. Teaching Teachers are vital to student learning. They want to help their students succeed, but often don’t get the feedback and support they need to do so. Fair, thorough evaluations empower teachers to keep learning and growing within the profession by targeting their strengths and areas for improvement. Thousands of teachers and dozens of researchers collaborated on the Measures of Effective Teaching project—a research study that has helped us better understand what great teaching looks like, and the types of measures that can provide a fair assessment of teaching aimed at helping every teacher be their best.
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