Bree Dusseault

Practitioner-in-Residence

Bree Dusseault is practitioner-in-residence at the Center on Reinventing Public Education, supporting its analysis of district and charter responses to COVID-19. Bree previously served as executive director of Green Dot Public Schools Washington, executive director of pK-12 Schools for Seattle Public Schools, researcher at CRPE, and was a principal and teacher. She serves on the boards of Teach For America Washington and City Year South King County and is a Pahara-Aspen fellow. She earned her BA in economics from Dartmouth College and a Masters in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Taking Attendance During Coronavirus Closures: Is It Even Worth It?

Aug 21 2020

Bree Dusseault is quoted in Education Week on attendance tracking during the pandemic.

With Maryland students learning from home, what will a typical school day look like?

Aug 21 2020

Bree Dusseault is quoted in the Baltimore Sun about Maryland's start to the 2020 school year.

Coronavirus: How pandemic pods and zutors are changing home-schooling

Aug 5 2020

Bree Dusseault is quoted by BBC News on widening gaps of inequality in education during the pandemic.

Why Schools Are Not Holding Students Back to Address COVID-19 Learning Loss

Jun 18 2020

Bree Dusseault is quoted in Education Week on learning loss amid COVID-19.

Districts' Summer School Plans on Shaky Ground

Jun 4 2020

Bree Dusseault is quoted in Education Week on school districts' plans for the summer amid COVID-19.

We reviewed 86 districts' reopening plans for the 2020-21 school year. Here's some of what we found

Aug 4 2020

For many students returning to class in the coming weeks, it will be back to school online.

More districts opt for virtual learning; Senate HEALS Act out of touch with public health reality

Jul 28 2020

While many districts hope to delay the start of an eventual return to in-person instruction, at least the first few weeks of the 2020-21 school year promise to be a return to remote learning.

More districts are going remote; will they avoid spring's missteps?

Jul 23 2020

With public health concerns mounting, a growing number of school districts in our nationwide review have shifted their fall plans and are now on track to begin the year fully remote.

First District Reopening Plans Illuminate Tradeoffs and Confusion In Politically Charged Environment

Jul 14 2020

Our review of some of the first U.S. districts to release more detailed information on fall 2020-21 planning shows districts are taking divergent paths.

The Wait for Fall Reopening Plans, and the First Details to Emerge

Jun 29 2020

Four months into COVID-19, and just weeks out from the new school year, very few districts in our database report concrete expectations for the 2020-21 school year.