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.

‘This is a crisis’: Baltimore-area school districts expect enrollment to decline this fall — and funding to follow
Sep 30 2020

Bree Dusseault is quoted in the Baltimore Sun on school enrollment declines amid COVID-19.

As Schools Go Remote, Finding ‘Lost’ Students Gets Harder
Sep 22 2020

Bree Dusseault is quoted in The New York Times on remote learning.

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.

More districts should seize the opportunity to improve professional learning for teachers
Sep 25 2020

Are districts setting teachers up with professional learning opportunities that will allow them to navigate the pandemic successfully?

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.