Jennifer Hogg Email and Phone Number

• Provide rigorous, high quality research, evaluation, training, and technical assistance to government agencies and foundations to help improve outcomes for students. • Employ quantitative and qualitative methods, including quasi-experimental design, survey design, and interview analysis. • Responsible for leading tasks involving design, data collection, analysis, report writing, and delivering technical assistance and training. Topical areas of expertise include student-centered learning, whole child supports, and in-service teacher professional development.

• Developed program budgets and monitored expenditures for four city departments.• Conducted meetings with city department leaders to help them analyze and plan within the confines of their budgets.• Developed and analyzed large, complex spreadsheet models and relational databases to provide summary data and projections on cost and outcome trends.• Analyzed and interpreted local, state, and federal legislation and regulations for financial and programmatic impacts.

• Designed and implemented a rigorous program evaluation of Berkeley Unified’s summer school program, including a literature review, interviews of stakeholders and experts, and a quasi-experimental analysis. • Presented findings and a multi-year implementation improvement plan to district leadership.

Co-lead instruction sections for 90+ UC Berkeley graduate students enrolled in The Economics of Public Policy Analysis.

Policy Analysis: • Reviewed proposed regulations and regulatory guidance from the Department of Education and developed recommendations to improve these documents, with a particular focus on teacher preparation and Title II of ESEA. • Collected and interpreted research on the federal School Improvement Grant program and made recommendations to direct future federal school turnaround efforts; authored a report summarizing findings and recommendations. • Reviewed existing literature on socioeconomic diversity policies and made recommendations for future federal efforts; authored a report summarizing findings and recommendations.Data Analysis: • Analyzed Income-Driven Repayment enrollment data in Stata and generated recommendations for a national outreach plan to increase enrollment among students most likely to benefit. • Analyzed FAFSA data to identify schools with the lowest FAFSA-completion rates to focus federal efforts at these schools. Political Analysis: • Authored papers in preparation for the administration transition on the state of teachers, early learning, and school improvement policies in the Obama administration. • Tracked emerging 2016 presidential candidate education priorities, as well as the two parties’ education platforms for the Branch.

• Led instruction sections for 60 UC Berkeley undergraduate students enrolled in Intermediate Microeconomics (Econ 100A). • Created lessons, problem sets, quizzes, and practice exams to enhance student learning.

• Planned, graded, and implemented lessons based on the Common Core standards.• Co-chaired the Positive Behavior Intervention Support team. • Founded and ran the RMS Runners’ Club. • Organized an end-of-year 8th grade class field trip to Washington, D.C.

• Selected from of a projected pool of 47,000 applicants to join national teacher corps of outstanding college graduates who commit two years to teach in under-resourced public schools. • Participated in intensive training program to develop the skills and knowledge needed to achieve significant gains in student achievement. • Taught in a summer school program for students in public schools, under the supervision of a faculty of experienced teachers. • Engaged in a full schedule of professional development activities, including: seminars, discussion groups, workshops, individual and group reflections, readings, and ‘learning teams’ specific to teaching license area.

• Assisted constituents with issue questions.• Collected contact information of local businesses for the Congressman.• Attended political events, learning how a Congressional district office interacts with local politics.

Served on the Planning Team of the Detroit Partnership, meeting regularly to discuss current events in Detroit and new ways to get the student population involved in the city.

Lead group of student volunteers to the Woodbridge Community Center in Detroit on a weekly basis. - Developed partnership with the director at the Center, organized tutoring logistics.

• Assisted specifically on the study, “Measuring and Understanding the Effectiveness of Michigan Charter Schools” led by Professors Susan Dynarski and Brian Jacob. • Created school-specific data templates and wrote rules for coding data in SPSS. • Conducted a review of charter school literature and general school input literature in order to develop a participant survey on school practices.

• Wrote policy memos on charter school governance policies across states to help inform the organization’s policy priorities. • Conducted data analysis on Michigan charter school effectiveness in Excel to isolate factors associated with student outcomes

• Recruited nationwide early childhood educators and activists to attend the Children’s Defense Fund’s national conference. • Attended hearings and panels relevant to early childhood policy and wrote memos to inform the Policy Department. • Updated online “fact sheets” on kindergarten legislation in each state.

- Organized raw data into files, used Linux to process the data and make it user-friendly in three statistical software programs (SAS, SPSS, and Stata). - Translated German demographic data into English for use in the United States.

- Helped design, conduct, analyze, and interpret various experiments focusing on empathy trends in college students in a Social Psychology Lab under the direction of Dr. Sarah Konrath. - Conducted student-run research with a team of peers and on personality, health, and social class, and presented findings at the Mid-America Undergraduate Psychology Research Conference in Indiana.