A new report by LFA and Grunwald Associates, with support from AT&T, examines how parents perceive the value of mobile devices, how they see their children using mobiles, and what they think of the possibilities for mobile learning.
Learning First Alliance Staff
Cheryl Scott Williams, Executive Director
williamsc@learningfirst.org
703-647-5020
Cheryl Scott Williams is a nationally recognized leader in education reform and improvement with extensive experience leading nonprofit boards and building successful board/staff relationships.
Prior to coming to the Learning First Alliance, she served as a senior consultant at APQC. She was previously Vice President, Strategic Initiatives at Teachscape, a San Francisco based company that designs and delivers online, job-embedded professional development for teachers and principals. In addition, she has served as Vice President, Education at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), and she spent 14 years directing the Education Technology Program at the National School Boards Association (NSBA) before joining CPB.
Williams is a past president of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), past board chair of the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), and current board member of the National Coalition for Technology in Education and Training (NCTET). She began her career in education as an English Language Arts teacher in Montgomery County, MD, and Fairfax County, VA. She holds a BA and MA in English and Secondary Education from the University of Maryland, College Park.
Anne O'Brien, Deputy Director
obriena@learningfirst.org
703-647-5021
Anne O’Brien joined the Learning First Alliance in September 2007. Prior to joining the Alliance, she worked for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southeast Louisiana, helping rebuild the agency after Hurricane Katrina. There she managed first the school-based mentoring program and then enrollment and matching for the agency. She has also consulted on the development of school-run mentoring programs.
Anne brings a practitioner's lens to her work, having taught high school biology, physical science, and remedial math at East St. John High School in Reserve, LA, and serving as a Teach For America corps member in the Greater New Orleans region. She holds a Bachelor's degree from Grinnell College and a Master's degree from George Washington University’s Graduate School of Education and Human Development. She is also an alumna of the Education Policy Fellowship Program at the Institute for Educational Leadership. She currently blogs on school reform on behalf of LFA for Edutopia.
Tarsi Dunlop, Program and Operations Manager
dunlopt@learningfirst.org
703-647-5022
Tarsi Dunlop joined the Learning First Alliance team in 2011. She came to the Alliance from the Roosevelt Institute Campus Network, where she served first as the National Network Coordinator and then as Director of Operations.
Tarsi originally hails from Western Massachusetts. She received a BA in Political Science from Middlebury College, where she spent her junior year at the London School of Economics. She has also held internships at the National Center for Law and Economic Justice and in the office of the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA).
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