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Bree Dusseault

Principal and Managing Director

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Bree Dusseault is principal and managing director at the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE), studying how districts and other public school systems drive innovation and durable change. She also supports CRPE’s workforce innovation research in partnership with ASU’s Next Education Workforce. Bree previously led the center’s national research on how COVID-19 impacted student learning experiences, community access to power, and longstanding systemic inequities. This work has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, The Atlantic, National Public Radio, and the BBC, among other publications.

Prior to CRPE Bree served as executive director of Green Dot Public Schools Washington and executive director of pK-12 Schools for Seattle Public Schools, and was a school principal and teacher. She is a Pahara-Aspen Fellow and serves on the boards of Teach For America Washington and City Year South King County.

Bree attended public school in Panama City, Florida. She earned her bachelor’s degree in economics from Dartmouth College and her master’s in education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where she was also a Reynolds Fellow for Social Entrepreneurship with the Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership.

bree.dusseault@asu.edu

Publications

Building upgrades, SEL: 100 large & urban districts plan their pandemic recovery

New review of ESSER spending plans shows districts favor facilities improvements, student & teacher supports; investments in staff, parents less clear.
Bree Dusseault
Principal and Managing Director

School mask, vaccine mandates are mostly gone. But what if the virus comes back?

As 100 large districts gear up for a “normal” year, it’s not clear what will happen should another deadly COVID variant arise.
Bree Dusseault
Principal and Managing Director

Remote learning options are shutting down as school reopens in fall 2022

Large districts more likely to keep pre-pandemic virtual programs than those created when Covid-19 closed schools and forced classes online
Bree Dusseault
Principal and Managing Director
Cara Pangelinan
Research Analyst

How 100 large and urban districts are (and aren’t) engaging stakeholders

Districts are supposed to gather local feedback on how to spend their ESSER pandemic relief money. One year in, one out of three may not...
Alvin Makori
Research Assistant
Bree Dusseault
Principal and Managing Director

Gut-check Moment for School Superintendents — Toxic Politics, Demands for New Services, Struggles to Deliver Basics Make ‘Impossible Job’ Harder than Ever

Amid all the concern about staffing shortages in America’s schools, the continued strain is showing up in another key place: at the top.
Travis Pillow
Innovation Fellow and Senior Writer
Bree Dusseault
Principal and Managing Director

Data From 100 Large Urban Districts Show Half Facing Shortages in Key Positions. Fixing That Will Mean Rethinking Teaching & Working in Schools

Our analysis of district information and local media reports finds 93 of 100 large and urban districts have mentioned staffing shortages in the 2021-22 school year.
Lisa Chu
Research Analyst
Bree Dusseault
Principal and Managing Director

Virtual Learning, Now and Beyond

This brief provides a guide for education leaders and policymakers building a path to sustainable and quality virtual learning.
Christine Pitts
Senior Policy Fellow
Travis Pillow
Innovation Fellow and Senior Writer
Bree Dusseault
Principal and Managing Director
Robin Lake
Director

How ready are schools for Omicron? December snapshot of 100 districts

Districts head into a winter break with little clarity on their newest wrinkle: how the omicron variant will affect their operations.
Bree Dusseault
Principal and Managing Director
Travis Pillow
Innovation Fellow and Senior Writer

Recovery for U.S. Students in 2021: What Schools and Districts Can Do to Make Up for Lost Learning Time

We propose six principles to ensure students experience a positive, healthy, and restorative schooling experience this year.
Bree Dusseault
Principal and Managing Director
Christine Pitts
Senior Policy Fellow
Robin Lake
Director

Notes from our database: The latest on 2021-22’s rocky return to school

The scramble to reopen schools, keep students safe, and keep them learning hasn’t abated.
Bree Dusseault
Principal and Managing Director
Travis Pillow
Innovation Fellow and Senior Writer
Christine Pitts
Senior Policy Fellow

More masks, more vaccines, more online learning, but what about quarantines? The latest on school district fall reopening

More school districts are requiring masks and vaccines, and remote learning plans are more detailed as the threat of the Delta variant looms.
Bree Dusseault
Principal and Managing Director
Travis Pillow
Innovation Fellow and Senior Writer

District update: Stronger health precautions, far more virtual options

School districts have stepped up health precautions and expanded virtual learning options as they prepare for students’ return to school.
Bree Dusseault
Principal and Managing Director
Travis Pillow
Innovation Fellow and Senior Writer

How 100 large urban districts are wrapping family & community input into plans for spending federal emergency school relief funds

A first look at ESSER priorities indicated many districts may be struggling to reconcile public input with their own strategic priorities.
Alvin Makori
Research Assistant
Bree Dusseault
Principal and Managing Director
Travis Pillow
Innovation Fellow and Senior Writer

First look at ESSER priorities: Districts are placing their bets on what they know

A $189 billion infusion of federal COVID relief funding gives America’s school districts an unprecedented opportunity to invest in lasting improvements in public education and...
Bree Dusseault
Principal and Managing Director
Travis Pillow
Innovation Fellow and Senior Writer

A Roadmap to Kick-Start Recovery in 2021: Six Principles for Summer Learning and Beyond

This paper presents school districts with six principles of summer learning that can guide pandemic recovery and planning for the summer, fall, and beyond.
Bree Dusseault
Principal and Managing Director
Christine Pitts
Senior Policy Fellow
Robin Lake
Director

Hindsight is 2024: A premortem on districts’ return to school

CRPE offers a premortem to give leaders pushing for change the foresight they need to overcome the barriers that threaten the lifespan of ambitious work....
Bree Dusseault
Principal and Managing Director

As urban districts prepare to reopen, most are not doing enough to communicate how they will keep students and teachers safe

As districts move to offer more in-person learning this spring, many teachers, parents and students remain hesitant, worrying whether schools — and their specific campuses...
Sean Gill
Research Analyst
Bree Dusseault
Principal and Managing 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
Project Manager
Bree Dusseault
Principal and Managing Director

Community health, vaccination policies & local preference: How 100 districts are reopening after COVID-19 shutdowns

Urban districts across the country have taken a sharp turn toward in-person and hybrid learning in the start of 2021.
Bree Dusseault
Principal and Managing Director
Roohi Sharma
Research Analyst

Vanishing in plain sight: Districts face barriers identifying and serving students experiencing homelessness

Students who are unhoused or in housing transition, an already vulnerable population before the pandemic, are falling even further out of sight in the 2020–21...
Alvin Makori
Research Assistant
Bree Dusseault
Principal and Managing Director
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