Senior Associate, Science

Jean Slattery has been with Achieve, Inc. since 1999 and currently is Senior Associate for Science. She served as Supervising Director of Curriculum Development and Support in the Rochester 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/Junior High Programs (1985-89). She 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.

Prior to her work in the central office of the Rochester City School District, Jean served as Vice-Principal of the Nathaniel Rochester Community School, where she developed a science magnet school program for students in Grades 6-8. She taught chemistry and general science for over a decade in New York and Connecticut. In 1984 she coordinated an NSF Summer Honors Workshop for Secondary Teachers at the University of Rochester.

Jean has been a Peer Consultant on Standards and Assessment for the U.S. Department of Education, a member of the Technical Working Group for the Evaluation of NAEP from 2004-2007 and a member of the steering committee responsible for developing the new NAEP assessment framework for technological literacy.

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.