A member of WestEd’s staff since 1999, Alberto Heredia serves as Senior Research Associate for the Evaluation Research Program.

He directs evaluations of three school leadership preparation programs — the Superintendent's Urban Principal Initiative in Miami-Dade County Public Schools, and the Leaders for Urban Schools and the Principal Residency and Pilot Leadership Network program in Los Angeles — and the Los Angeles Unified School District’s Tobacco Use Prevention Education programs for grades 9-12.

He also coordinates program monitoring site visits for the U.S. Department of Education Smaller Learning Communities Program at the national level. He recently served on the research team of the national Longitudinal Assessment of Comprehensive School Reform Implementation and Outcomes for the U.S. Department of Education and coordinated the internal evaluation of the California Comprehensive Center.

Heredia designs program evaluations using logic models and employing mixed methods including case study methods and descriptive statistics. He has managed all areas of evaluation projects including design, data collection and analysis, reporting of findings, and budgets.

His past work at WestEd includes directing a telephone survey of a representative sample of parents of students receiving special education services in the Los Angeles Unified School District and preparing a report for the court-appointed monitor of a consent decree in special education; directing an evaluation of the Broad Foundation's Labor-Management Collaborative for Improving Student Achievement; directing work on a subcontract for Learning Point Associates' Audit of the Written, Taught, and Tested Curriculum in New York State; and directing evaluations of Smaller Learning Communities programs in Long Beach and federally funded after school programs in Los Angeles.

Heredia has also served on the research staff of the External Evaluator project of the Comprehensive Assistance Center, providing assistance in planning school improvement efforts to schools identified as underperforming through California's Public Schools Accountability Act.

Prior to joining WestEd, Heredia spent five years as a public school teacher at the elementary, middle, and high school levels.

Heredia received a BA in history from Williams College and an AM in policy analysis and evaluation from the School of Education at Stanford University. He holds a bilingual multiple subject teaching credential from San Jose State University.