Overview
Sarah Lundy is the Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) West’s Director of Training, Coaching, and Technical Support. Lundy provides analytic and technical support at the state, district, and school levels by effectively using data and research to inform policy and practice in Arizona, California, Nevada, and Utah. Lundy’s areas of expertise include school and district improvement, transformational leadership coaching, participatory systems change, instructional coaching, and cultivating networks of educational leaders within and between districts.
As a Senior Program Manager in Research-Practice Partnerships, Lundy coaches and supports partnership and project leads in designing and providing technical assistance to address high-leverage needs and improve student learning conditions and outcomes. Learning experiences that shift adult beliefs and actions are the primary driver for improving and sustaining equitable student outcomes in Lundy’s work. Lundy currently supports projects that build statewide or district-level capacity to implement evidence-based practices for literacy and mathematics instruction for multilingual learners, improve early-career teacher mentorship and retention practices, develop principal leadership and teacher leadership capacity, leverage data-driven inquiry cycles to decrease chronic absenteeism, decrease racialized disparities in discipline outcomes, and improve county-level support provided to students in foster care.
Prior to joining WestEd, Lundy was the Director of Leadership Development for the Sonoma County Office of Education, where she provided analytic support and technical assistance to district and schools to address high-leverage student learning needs and equity challenges. Lundy facilitated Networked Improvement Communities between school and district teams to spread and scale innovative and efficacious change efforts and led multiple partnerships between district improvement teams and national research institutions. Before working in California, Lundy taught at the secondary and postsecondary levels for over a decade in Arizona and Oregon and served as a Teaching Fellow and Principal Investigator for the Choices Program at Brown University.
Education
- EdD in educational leadership, Portland State University
- MA in political science, University of Arizona
- BA in political science, Gonzaga University
Select Publications
Lundy, S. E. (2015). The learning triangle: Compelling content, relevant skills & authentic relationships. In A. Agarwal-Rangnath, A. Dover, & N. Henning (Eds.), Social studies for social justice in the Common Core era: Letters to new teachers.
Lundy, S. E. (2015). More substance less hype: Using digital texts to support diverse readers. Social Education, Special Technology Edition, 79(2).