Overview
Maggie Hannan (she/her/hers) is an expert in educational implementation and systems change. For more than a decade, she used research and evaluation to support partners’ efforts to understand and improve complex learning and policy processes. Broadly, she works across three primary areas: (a) access to rigorous mathematics teaching and learning, (b) design and use of educational technologies, and (c) teacher preparation pathways and in-service experiences. As an evaluator, Hannan specializes in formative, developmental, and user-centered approaches, and uses qualitative and mixed methods to add nuance to summative and impact evaluations.
Hannan currently leads WestEd’s formative evaluation of California’s Statewide Residency Technical Assistance Center (SRTAC), a $20 million dollar initiative that supports the implementation of the California Teacher Residency Grant Program across California. She also leads and contributes to several evaluations of the effectiveness of educational technology platforms and high quality instructional materials in mathematics. Additionally, she partners with districts, states, educational technology developers, and other large learning organizations to support product development, program improvement, and system refinement. A former English 101 instructor and writing tutor, Maggie draws on multidisciplinary expertise to build and sustain creative and responsive partnerships with collaborators.
Before joining WestEd, Hannan led a research and community engagement program at Carnegie Mellon University, where she explored educational technology access and diffusion in close collaboration with district and community partners. Hannan also studied large-scale instructional improvement and teacher preparation initiatives at the Learning Research and Development Center at the University of Pittsburgh. These experiences reflect the balance between the scalable and the specific that defines Hannan’s approach to educational research and evaluation.
Education
- PhD in Learning Sciences and Policy, University of Pittsburgh
- MA in English Literature, West Virginia University
Select Publications
Hannan, M. (2025). Emerging insights from early implementation of California’s Statewide Residency Technical Assistance Center. WestEd.
Hannan, M. Q., Hartnett, S., Konyk, K., & Keruskin, K. (2024). Situated technology infusion in a school district: How systems and structures mediate the process. Educational Technology Research and Development, 72(2), 819–844.
Hannan, M. Q., & Russell, J. L. (2020). Coaching in Context: Exploring conditions that shape instructional coaching practice. Teachers College Record, 122(10), 1–40.
Russell, J. L., Correnti, R., Stein, M. K., Bill, V., Hannan, M. Q., Schwartz, N., Booker, L. N., Pratt, N. R., & Mathis, C. (2019). Learning from adaptation to support instructional improvement at scale: Understanding coaching adaptation in the TN Math Coaching Project. American Educational Research Journal, 57(1), 535–575.