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Bree Dusseault

Principal and Managing Director

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Background

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 researches how states and districts are creating conditions for effective and equitable AI-enabled learning, and AI’s potential to reshape the future of learning. Bree previously led the center’s national research on how COVID-19 impacted student learning experiences, community access to power, and longstanding systemic inequities. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Atlantic, National Public Radio, and the BBC, among other publications.

Before 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 member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network and 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
Research Areas

Publications

Districts and AI: Tracking Early Adopters and What This Means for 2024-25

Just two years after ChatGPT’s public introduction, generative AI has rapidly transformed many aspects of society and the workplace. McKinsey’s 2024 State of AI survey...
Bree Dusseault
Principal and Managing Director

AI and Education Policy 101: The Evolving Landscape and Examples from Early Adopters

News broke last week on litigation against Hingham Public Schools in Massachusetts, where a high school senior was disciplined and given a failing grade for...
Bree Dusseault
Principal and Managing Director

Driving educational innovation: CRPE and Walton Family Foundation support system-wide innovations in three school districts

The Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) is thrilled to announce the Phase II grantees of our Innovative School Systems Grant (ISSG). In partnership with...
Bree Dusseault
Principal and Managing Director
Caitlin Lennon
Research Project Manager
Emily Prymula
Content Director

New state AI policies released: Signs point to inconsistency and fragmentation

In October 2023, CRPE reported that only California and Oregon had provided schools with guidance on navigating AI, while 13 other states planned to release...
Bree Dusseault
Principal and Managing Director

AI is already disrupting education, but only 13 states are offering guidance for schools

More states are acknowledging the implications of artificial intelligence technology for our society and institutions, particularly our school systems. However, the emerging state-level guidance for...
Bree Dusseault
Principal and Managing Director
Justin Lee
Research Intern

Study: How districts are responding to AI and what it means for the new school year

This piece was originally published in The 74. Districts are responding in divergent ways to artificial intelligence’s potential to reshape teaching and learning, and most...
Bree Dusseault
Principal and Managing Director
Justin Lee
Research Intern

Review finds states slow to give guidance on how teachers, schools should use AI

This piece was originally published on The 74. Dusseault & Lee: Other than Hawaii’s, no education department has publicly focused on policies governing artificial intelligence...
Bree Dusseault
Principal and Managing Director
Justin Lee
Research Intern

Despite staff shortages, few districts are making teaching more appealing

The exact cause of teacher shortages is still up for debate. Some experts argue that shortages are localized, while others say that the lack of...
Lydia Rainey
Principal
Bree Dusseault
Principal and Managing Director
Lisa Chu
Research Analyst

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
Guest Author
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
Guest Author
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
Guest Author

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
Guest Author
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
Guest Author

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
Guest Author
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