Paul Burkander
About
Developing Resilient and Supportive Community Colleges partnership lead
Paul Burkander, PhD, is a senior education researcher at SRI International. He has over 10 years of experience conducting research and evaluation studies in education. He has led training, coaching, and technical support projects to support school leaders’ capacity to conduct evaluations and he has led evaluations in partnership with stakeholders from DC Public Schools, the Cleveland Metropolitan School District, and the School District of Philadelphia. With expertise in quantitative methods, he has also led impact analyses across a wide range of topics, including teen-pregnancy prevention programs, employment assistance programs, school-turnaround interventions, and teacher training programs. He supported quality assurance of REL products by serving as a peer reviewer for over six years. Burkander also has extensive experience evaluating evidence quality, as a certified What Works Clearinghouse reviewer (version 4.1) and having co-authored evidence review standards for the Pathways to Work Evidence Review Clearinghouse.