SCOPE Brown Bag Seminar

Yvette Jackson, Ed.D. is internationally
recognized for her work in assessing the learning potential of
disenfranchised urban students. Her research is in literacy, gifted
education, and the cognitive mediation theory of Dr. Reuven Feuerstein.
She has applied her research to develop an integrated process to
motivate and elicit potential in underachievers. This research was the
basis for her design of the New York City Gifted Programs Framework when
she was the Director of Gifted Programs. As Executive Director of
Instruction and Professional Development for the New York City Board of
Education, she led the development and implementation of the
Comprehensive Education Plan which optimizes the delivery of all core
curriculum and support services in the Public Schools of New York City.

Dr. Jackson currently serves as the chief executive officer of the
National Urban Alliance for Effective Education, founded at The College
Board and Teachers College, Columbia University. She works with school
district administrators and teachers across the country to customize and
deliver systemic approaches to literacy development through
instructional practices that integrate culture, language and cognition
to expand and accelerate student learning and achievement. She is a
visiting lecturer at Harvard University, a member of ASCD’s
Differentiated Instruction Cadre and a keynote presenter at national and
international conferences.

Dr. Jackson received a BA from Queens College of the City University
of New York with a double major in education and French. At Columbia
University’s Teachers College, she was awarded an MA in curriculum, an
Ed.M. in educational administration, and a doctorate in educational
administration. She is the author of The Pedagogy of Confidence: Inspiring High Intellectual Performance in Urban Schools (Teachers College Press, 2011).