Anisah Hardin

Dr. Anisah Hardin is an Evolutionary Learning Associate at CPRL. Before joining CPRL, she was a Continuous Improvement Coach at New Visions for Public Schools, where she worked with school leaders and their teams to support the design and improvement of school systems. Through her research, both at the RAND Corporation and as a consultant, Anisah has examined school system research partnerships, teacher collaboration, and school culture. She co-authored a case study of Cleveland Metropolitan School District’s redesign of the principal supervisor role and central office support for principals. Her work has been published in the American Journal of Education and in the Handbook of Research on Teaching published by American Educational Research Association. She has been an adjunct lecturer at Columbia University and started her career as a high school science teacher in New York City. Anisah holds a B.A. in Chemistry from Rutgers University, an M.S. in Teaching from Fordham University, a Ph.D. in education from the University of California, Berkeley, and completed an IES postdoctoral fellowship in EdPolicyWorks at University of Virginia.