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Sarah McCann

Senior Project Manager

Background

Sarah McCann is a senior project manager and researcher at the Center on Reinventing Public Education. She previously served as the National Coordinator for the Education Policy Fellowship Program at the Institute for Educational Leadership. Sarah holds a BA in Geography & Anthropology and an MA in Social Development from the University of Sussex. She brings curiosity and a can-do spirit to all of her work.

sarah.mccann@asu.edu

Publications

Think Forward New England

QUICK LINKS Case Studies Commentary Student Advisory Panel Funding Data Reports CASE STUDIES Our teaching cases tell stories of innovation as works in progress. They...
Chelsea Waite
Principal
Lydia Rainey
Principal
Lisa Chu
Research Analyst
Sarah McCann
Senior Project Manager
Heather Casimere
Research Analyst Assistant
Cara Pangelinan
Research Analyst

When Challenges Never Let Up: School District Leaders Steer through Hazards in Baltimore and Chicago

In the face of financial, political, and capacity constraints, leaders within the Baltimore City Public School System and Chicago Public Schools are making progress toward...
Paul Hill
Founder, CRPE
Sarah McCann
Senior Project Manager
Lydia Rainey
Principal
Chelsea Waite
Principal

Innovation in New England

CRPE partnered with The BARR Foundation to map the New England region’s landscape of learning.
Cara Pangelinan
Research Analyst
Chelsea Waite
Principal
Christine Pitts
Senior Policy Fellow
Sarah McCann
Senior Project Manager
Heather Casimere
Research Analyst Assistant
Lisa Chu
Research Analyst

The Promise and Challenges of Pandemic Innovation in High Schools

This report summarizes what we observed from a survey of New England high schools as they navigated the uncertainty of the pandemic.
Betheny Gross
Senior Research Analyst and Research Director
Sarah McCann
Senior Project Manager

New England Profiles of Innovation | Nokomis Regional High School

This profile of Nokomis Regional High School in Newport, Maine details the school’s practices that have made it successful, how they have adapted in the...
Sarah McCann
Senior Project Manager

Statewide assessment plans are unclear and neglect remote learners

Weeks away from the end of the school year, it’s still unclear whether assessment data will play a role in shaping academic and social-emotional intervention...
Sarah McCann
Senior Project Manager
Barbara Talkington
Research Analyst

States and School Systems Can Act Now to Dismantle Silos Between High School, College, and Career

We interviewed K–12, state, and nonprofit leaders who have been focused on redesigning education and career pathways about how their work has changed in the...
Georgia Heyward
Senior Research Analyst
Sarah McCann
Senior Project Manager
Betheny Gross
Senior Research Analyst and Research Director

Districts quiet on how they plan to help students recover from a year of continued disruption

As more large and urban school districts welcome students back to campus, few are providing public details about how they plan to academically support students...
Sarah McCann
Senior Project Manager
Bree Dusseault
Principal and Managing Director

How Schools Adapt during the Pandemic Can Reshape Adolescent Learning Experiences for Generations

This brief, informed by interviews with school and system leaders in the New England region, suggests some efforts to reinvent schools before the pandemic have...
Betheny Gross
Senior Research Analyst and Research Director
Georgia Heyward
Senior Research Analyst
Sarah McCann
Senior Project Manager

We reviewed 86 districts’ reopening plans for the 2020-21 school year. Here’s some of what we found

Remote learning is no longer an unprecedented mode of delivery for most schools across America. For many students returning to class in the coming weeks,...
Sarah McCann
Senior Project Manager
Bree Dusseault
Principal and Managing Director
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