Tara Anderson

Director
Education Resource Strategies

Tara joined ERS in 2016 and is a leader on ERS’ Human Capital Practice Area. She has worked with district and state partners nationally, with a focus on how districts can design schools to make teaching more attractive and sustainable. She has supported school systems to organize staffing and schedules to dramatically increase time for teacher collaboration and enable rookie teachers to co-teach for 50% of their day with highly effective teacher leaders. She has also supported school systems to redesign High School schedules to better support students to stay on track for graduation and expand access to early post-secondary opportunities. Tara leads ERS’ work to annually track teacher turnover in our partner districts. Prior to joining ERS, Tara taught elementary school in Richmond, California. She holds an MBA from the Yale School of Management and a B.A. in Economics from Bryn Mawr College. She is an alumna of Teach for America and Education Pioneers.

Sessions

• Using Teacher Teams to Support Collaboration and Retention: Evidence on the Next Education Workforce