Deepa Patel Email & Phone Number

• Project Management
• Lead team of 15 researchers to conduct range of complex tasks, such as administering surveys, scheduling classroom visits, and conducting observations for 300+ participants across multiple districts.
• Simultaneously manage two to three mix-method research studies ranging in effort from $600K to $2.4M, ensuring high quality, on-time and on-budget deliverables.
• Primary client contact leading communication about project goals and progress, and helping clients interpret results to make program improvements.Research and Analysis
• Led team in collecting and synthesizing 150+ teacher and school leader interviews about scaling and expansion of charter network, resulting in succinct memo school leaders reported using to inform program decisions.
• Helped Center for Applied Linguistics staff develop clear theory for how program activities lead to desired outcomes and established metrics to monitor and evaluate program implementation.

• Conducted desk review of the Child-Friendly Schools model and standards development process to inform creation of a child-friendly school regional framework.
• Synthesized literature review and field visit findings into report discussing Child-Friendly Schools standards development and implementation in Central and Eastern Europe and Commonwealth of Independent States.
• Assisted with creation of CEE/CIS region-specific conceptual framework to implement Child-Friendly Schools standards.

• Coordinated professional development for new school principals around instruction, leadership, and operations.
• Conducted evaluations of each professional development session and amended future sessions based on feedback.
• Planned and executed three day professional development retreat for school leaders around data-driven decision making, and school culture and climate.
• Facilitated team interviews of new school design teams and debriefing sessions to determine which schools to recommend for approval.
• Participated in charter school renewal site visit process by objectively observing classroom instruction, facilitating interviews, and deliberating with fellow team members.

• Developed and implemented project-based, New York State Social Studies curriculum for diverse group of students in honors, inclusion, self-contained special education, and general education classrooms.
• Coached Model United Nations team to compete at the Middle School Model United Nations Conference.
• Organized school-wide professional development around literacy assessments.
• Designed curriculum to motivate and prepare students for college in the extracurricular GEAR UP program.

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Ms, Teaching Adolescence Social Studies

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