About Shari Robinson, Ed.D.

Shari Robinson is an educator with a long and varied career in teaching, educational technology research and development, professional development, and school reform. Shari received her undergraduate degree in psychology from Stanford University and her doctorate in Human Development from Harvard's Graduate School of Education. She has been a project manager for several software projects, including the classroom modules for Bank Street College's award-winning television show The Second Voyage of the Mimi.

As Vice President of Consultant Services at Wasatch Education Systems, she oversaw the development of a national teacher training program to support the implementation of Wasatch's tool-based software. Shari helped to coordinate the ATLAS Communities Project, a New American Schools reform project that is a partnership of EDC, Harvard Project Zero, School Development Program, and the Coalition of Essential Schools. She has also conducted evaluative research on a number of educational technology and museum-related programs.

Six years ago, she returned to the classroom, after an 18-year hiatus, as a teacher in a suburban New York school district. When she's not teaching fifth graders, she is conducting staff development courses in literacy and differentiated instruction, serving as a Curriculum Leader for her school, or planning professional development activities for the district.