https://www.policystudies.org/home daily 1.0 2021-08-09 https://www.policystudies.org/about-regina-paul daily 0.75 2021-08-09 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fbecb46abaecd331815c866/t/61113343d3e3f71eaa788ca6/1628517218872/Regina+H+Paul.jpg About Regina - About Regina H. Paul, President Ms. Paul has developed curricula and assessments, designed and conducted formative and summative program evaluations, trained teachers and administrators, facilitated community meetings, conducted site visits, prepared oral and written reports, directed the work of other staff, and managed the budget for over 250 projects at Policy Studies in Education (PSE), where she is now president. Her projects at PSE have covered a wide range of topics, including K–12 curriculum and student assessment in every subject, program development and evaluation, parent engagement, school board policy making, administrative organization, public and professional opinion surveying, and adult and higher education. Ms. Paul served as the editor-in-chief for School Steps (and its various state versions)—a set of curriculum objectives for grades K-12 in English, mathematics, science, and social studies—that has been used in over 200 school districts. She also served as editor-in-chief of the Ohio Parallel/Preliminary Proficiency Tests (tests parallel to the State tests and used in over 250 school districts in Ohio) and the Michigan Diagnostic Series (criterion-referenced test item banks used in over 100 schools in Michigan). She also served as the creator and editor-in-chief for I Can Be . . ., a series of K–8 multicultural curriculum units that infuse knowledge and attitudes about the world of work into core instruction in the academic subjects, and as the creator and editor-in-chief for ArtWorks, a series of K–5 curriculum units that integrate national standards in visual art, music, dance, theatre, language arts, and social studies into units to be taught by regular classroom teachers. Ms. Paul has carried out projects on site in over 100 school districts (working shoulder-to- shoulder with teachers, administrators, and school board members) and in over 100 colleges in many states. She has also designed and carried out statewide studies for state education departments and nationwide studies for professional associations. In the area of program evaluation, Ms. Paul has carried out evaluations of over 100 educational programs, sponsored by the federal government, state education departments, local school districts, foundations, and other nonprofit organizations. The topics of these evaluations have included career and technical education, small learning communities, activities of community-based organizations, internship programs, special education, desegregation, and the arts. Concentrating her work from 2008 to 2013 in New York City, Ms. Paul co-designed, co-founded, and then managed an Early College STEM public high school. She was instrumental in obtaining a $1 million grant from a private foundation to support the school’s opening and its development. The school’s innovative structure included a schedule that allowed its academically average and below-average public school students (80 percent low-income students, 95 percent students of color, 75 percent first-generation-to-college students) to graduate in just three years instead of four. The school was designated as a model for the State of New York. In addition to project work, Ms. Paul has served as a consultant to the federal government, state boards of education, state education departments, and foundations and has spoken at many national and statewide meetings of school board members and school administrators (superintendents, curriculum directors, and principals), most frequently on topics concerning curriculum, evaluation, and policy making. She has organized and given presentations at the national conventions and special training conferences of the American Association of School Administrators, the American Educational Research Association, the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, and the National School Boards Association. She co-authored Curriculum and Assessment Policy: 20 Questions for Board Members and Time for Curriculum, two books on curriculum and evaluation for school board members. She also co-authored the Educational Goals Survey kit, published by the National School Boards Association, and Determining Validity and Reliability of Locally Developed Assessments, published by the Illinois State Board of Education. She has had articles published in Educational Leadership, Foreign Language Annals, and Updating School Board Policies. Recently for three years, she wrote and cohosted USACollegeChat, a free weekly podcast for high school students and parents who are navigating the world of college applications and admissions. Simultaneously, she co-authored two books for her podcast audience—How To Explore Your College Options: A Workbook for High School Students and How To Find the Right College: A Workbook for Parents of High School Students. Ms. Paul earned a B.A. in English from Cornell University and an M.A. in Curriculum from Teachers College, Columbia University. She also holds secondary English teaching certification. https://www.policystudies.org/about-policy-studies-in-education daily 0.75 2021-08-09 https://www.policystudies.org/about-mitch daily 0.75 2021-08-09 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fbecb46abaecd331815c866/t/61113729d01130556c0e9572/1598294049117/ About Mitch - About Henry M. Brickell (1926–2019), Founder Henry M. (Mitch) Brickell was the founding president of Policy Studies in Education (PSE) in 1973 and directed the work of more than 500 projects since that time. The projects covered the education of kindergarteners through adults on a wide range of topics, including curriculum and assessment, school board policy making, desegregation, special education, teacher education, school finance, long-range planning, adult and higher education, and career and technical education. Dr. Brickell addressed local, state, and national audiences of teachers, administrators, school board members, legislators, and citizens in most states over the past 50 years. He was named one of the first Distinguished Professors of the National Academy for School Executives, operated by the American Association of School Administrators for the professional development of administrators. He was a sought-after speaker and workshop leader by the National School Boards Association and by many state associations of school boards, including Texas, California, Pennsylvania, and New York. Early in his career, Dr. Brickell created the Davies–Brickell System of School Board Policy Making and Administration, which is currently used by most school districts nationwide to create and record their school board policies. This system changed the course of school board policy making in the U.S. While on special assignment to Commissioner James E. Allen, Jr., at the New York State Education Department, Dr. Brickell wrote a landmark book on educational innovation, Organizing New York State for Educational Change. Over his long career, he authored numerous books, book chapters, and articles for professional educational journals (including Phi Delta Kappan, Educational Leadership, and The College Board Review). He co-authored two books published by the National School Boards Association for school board members about their role in curriculum and evaluation and Americans in Transition—Life Changes as Reasons for Adult Learning, a national survey and analysis of why adults come to college. He served as the American Educational Research Association’s representative to the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation, which published benchmarks for the sound evaluation of educational programs. In addition to directing projects at PSE, Dr. Brickell served as a mentor to more than 50 professional staff members and associates at PSE. He also served as an independent consultant to many organizations and produced studies such as these: Planning for Public and Nonpublic Education in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Working for legislative commissions, Dr. Brickell directed statewide studies in which citizens were surveyed and statistical data were analyzed. Final reports to the legislative commissions recommended how public and nonpublic education should be structured and financed in each state. Planning Future Directions for the Council on Educational Research and Development (CEDaR). Dr. Brickell helped plan the future initiatives and lobbying strategies of CEDaR, the national association of federally funded educational research and development laboratories and centers. After extensive interviews with national educational and legislative leaders, Dr. Brickell advised CEDaR both on how to position itself and its members for new roles and on how to judge their effectiveness. Analyzing Exemplary Youth Employment Programs. Dr. Brickell chaired the National Institute of Education’s conference on exemplary youth employment programs and subsequently prepared the report for the Vice President’s Task Force on Youth Employment. As a result, he was one of 15 scholars invited by the federal government to lead a national symposium on youth transition from school to work. Advising Federally Funded Regional Educational Laboratories. For 20 years, Dr. Brickell served as chair of the outside review panels that monitored the work of the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory and Research for Better Schools. Part of Dr. Brickell’s role was to set benchmarks against which the labs’ work could be judged for its effectiveness, particularly as the labs improved their services to their state education departments and local school district clients. Evaluating Initiatives of the National Center for Research in Vocational Education (NCRVE). Dr. Brickell served as the independent evaluator of projects conducted by NCRVE, including its technical assistance in statewide vocational education planning and career education counseling programs. Prior to his founding of PSE, Dr. Brickell taught high school English in Illinois, served as an assistant superintendent in the Manhasset (New York) Public Schools, taught at New York University and Stanford University, served as an Associate Dean for Research and Development at Indiana University, and worked at the Educational Testing Service. Dr. Brickell earned a B.S. from The Ohio State University, an M.A. from the University of Chicago, and an M.A. and Ed.D. from Teachers College, Columbia University.