Sr. Program/Research Associate
WestEd's Natalie Lacireno-Paquet conducts research and evaluation projects geared toward program improvement.
A Senior Program/Research Associate for
Learning Innovations at WestEd, Lacireno-Paquet is evaluating the implementation and impact of 15
Community Learning Centres (CLCs) in English language schools throughout the province of Quebec, as well as the work of the CLC technical support team.
Lacireno-Paquet also is evaluating the
principal leadership training/induction programs in New Jersey. She is conducting focus groups, interviews, observations, questionnaires, and analyses of program documents and benchmark data. Her work will help improve the effectiveness of these programs.
In addition to her evaluation work, Lacireno-Paquet conducts research as part of the Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast & Islands, working in partnership with the Education Development Center and American Institutes for Research. Her work on the potential uses of models of student-level growth or improvement for school accountability in Massachusetts will help the State Department of Education determine the feasibility and potential benefits or drawbacks of using growth models in making school accountability decisions.
Prior to joining WestEd, Lacireno-Paquet served as an assistant professor of educational leadership at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and worked in the survey division at Mathematica Policy Research. She also served as a graduate research fellow at the Center for Washington Area Studies at George Washington University, where she evaluated charter schools in Washington, DC. This work helped recognize the need to account for the diversity of charter school type in research analysis.
Lacireno-Paquet recently coauthored "Institution Advocacy and the Political Behavior of Charter Schools," published in Political Research Quarterly, and "Moving Forward or Sliding Backwards: The Evolution of Charter School Policies in Michigan and the District of Columbia," published in Educational Policy.
She received a BA in political science from McGill University, and a master's degree in public policy and women's studies and PhD in public policy, both from George Washington University.
Tel: 781.481.1133
Email: nlacire@wested.org
Mailing Address:Learning Innovations at WestEd
200 Unicorn Park Drive, 4th floor
Woburn, Massachusetts 01801-3324
