Janelle Sands

Janelle Sands is a research analyst in SRI International’s Center for Education Policy. She is working on several projects, one being the Evaluation of the Education & Learning Initiative for the McKnight Foundation, which aims to improve children’s literacy by third grade through integrated PreK–3 pathways. Another is the National Science Foundation’s study of Advanced Placement (AP) Science Courses, which examines the implementation and impact of the College Board’s redesigned AP biology and chemistry courses. For these studies, she is assisting in quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis.

Before joining SRI, Sands was a research associate at The Education Trust. There, she developed a research study examining the strategies of high-performing, high-poverty schools for accelerating learning and conducted quantitative analysis for the report “Building and Sustaining Talent: Creating Conditions in High-Poverty Schools That Support Effective Teaching and Learning.” Sands also codesigned a study with Brockton Public Schools in Massachusetts to examine teachers’ implementation of the Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP) model. A DC Teaching Fellow, Sands taught fifth grade in Washington, DC.

Sands earned and her A.M. in urban education policy from Brown University and her B.A. in sociology from Temple University.