Juliet Tiffany-Morales

Juliet Tiffany-Morales is a research analyst in SRI International’s Center for Education Policy. She has worked on a variety of national, state, and local research and evaluation projects in the areas of accountability, K–12 district and school reforms, and teacher and principal development systems. She is experienced in both qualitative and quantitative research methods, program evaluation, and analysis of federal and state policies. Tiffany-Morales also has extensive experience analyzing state- and program-level datasets to investigate teacher and administrator trends relating to teacher and principal labor markets and participation in professional development.
Tiffany-Morales is the project director for the evaluation of the California Academic Partnership Program’s High School Leadership Initiative. This is a three-year evaluation of a high school reform effort intended to improve student achievement and advance educational equity by strengthening the effectiveness of high school leadership structures and practices. Tiffany-Morales is also the project director for an ongoing study of the teaching profession in California that has resulted in reports on teacher development, supply, and demand issues including preservice preparation, induction, professional development, evaluation, and retirement. In 2013, this study will focus on the Common Core State Standards, including an examination of the California Office to Reform Education (CORE) Districts’ approach to preparing teachers for the Common Core as well as an assessment of California teachers’ readiness to teach to the new standards.

Previously, Tiffany-Morales was project director for Strengthening Science Education in California, which focused on science education in California’s elementary and middle schools. She was deputy director for a study of a pilot of California’s District Assistance and Intervention Teams (DAIT). Tiffany-Morales has participated in a variety of additional studies that have ranged from national studies, such as the Evaluation of Title I Accountability Systems and School Improvement Efforts and the National Study of Alternate Assessments, to state and local studies, including an evaluation of the California Subject Matter Projects and a study of math and science course-taking patterns in a select number of California school districts.

Before joining SRI, Tiffany-Morales worked for a nonprofit organization that supported afterschool, parent, and mentor programs in California’s underresourced communities. She worked for the University of California, Los Angeles School Management Program, implementing an internal evaluation system, and was a bilingual tutor/teaching assistant in traditional elementary classrooms and in a Migrant Education summer program.

Tiffany-Morales works with her local community on education issues by serving on the education committee of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group and as a school board member for her local K–8 public school district. Tiffany-Morales earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz and a master’s degree in public policy from the University of Southern California.