Danielle was an original NCTQ board member and contributed to a number of NCTQ publications. She served as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation and led its Teacher Quality Project, a precursor to the National Council on Teacher Quality. Previously, Danielle taught high school English in Washington, DC, and Trenton, NJ, after working as a youth advocate with AmeriCorps VISTA in Seattle.
Danielle holds a BA in Political and Social Thought from the University of Virginia and a master’s in education administration from Columbia University’s Teachers College, where she also conducted her doctoral research in education policy.
Our drum is beating for both better base pay and much more strategic use of compensation dollars by school districts to purchase what they most need and value.
