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2004 NSF K-12 Math, Science, and Technology Curriculum Developers Conference

Jean Slattery

Jean Slattery has been a consultant for Achieve since 1999 and currently serves as Director for Benchmarking. Previously, she was Supervising Director of Curriculum Development and Support in the Rochester, NY City School District from 1989-97, with responsibility for overseeing the work of all subject-area directors in the K-12 instructional program. Her earlier responsibilities as a district-level administrator included serving as Director of the Middle School (1987-89) and Junior High (1985-87) Programs. During this period, she initiated Teachers As Partners, a peer-coaching staff development program funded by the Ford and Matsushita (Panasonic) Foundations.

Prior to her work in central office, Jean served as Vice-Principal of the Nathaniel Rochester Community School. She taught chemistry for over a decade in Rochester, New Haven, and Branford, CT and in 1984 served as the administrator for an NSF Summer Honors Workshop for Secondary Teachers at the University of Rochester. Jean was also District Coordinator for the New Standards Project of the National Center on Education and the Economy from 1991-97 and served on the faculty of the July Institutes on Assessment at the Harvard University School of Education from 1990-99.

Jean is a Peer Consultant on Standards and Assessment for the U.S. Department of Education. She has also served as a consultant to the Washington, DC School District, the San Diego Unified School District, a Washington State consortium of rural schools, and the Arkansas and Illinois Departments of Education. Jean has worked for the Council for Basic Education on projects involving the Flint Community School District, the Nevada Education Department, and the Cleveland Municipal School District.

Jean received a B.A. in Chemistry from Albertus Magnus College, an M.A.T. in Science Education from Yale University, and an Ed.D. in Science Curriculum from the University of Rochester.

This project is supported by the National Science Foundation (Grant No. ESI-0352345). Any opinion, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.