Bree Dusseault

Principal

Bree Dusseault is principal 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.

10/2021

Recovery for U.S. Students in 2021: What Schools and Districts Can Do to Make Up for Lost Learning Time

We propose six principles, some of which districts are already applying, to ensure students experience a positive, healthy, and restorative schooling experience this year.

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07/2021

A Roadmap to Kick-Start Recovery in 2021: Six Principles for Summer Learning and Beyond

This paper presents school districts with six principles of summer learning that can guide pandemic recovery and planning for the summer, fall, and beyond.

Disruptions to schooling fall hardest on vulnerable students

Oct 23 2021

Bree Dusseault is quoted by AP on disruptions to schooling for students who are quarantined.

‘Still Not Equitable’: How COVID-19 Closures, Differing Safety Policies Are Disrupting School for Many Children

Oct 18 2021

Bree Dusseault is quoted in Morning Consult on district policies for students who are sent home to quarantine.

Kids are losing school days to quarantines. Here's a way to keep them in classrooms

Oct 8 2021

Bree Dusseault is quoted in NPR on the potential negative impacts of sending students home to quarantine.

‘I was expecting a plan’: Boston students see few signs of federal recovery money

Sep 28 2021

Bree Dusseault is quoted in The Boston Globe on how districts are using their federal relief money.

The Remote-Option Divide

Sep 25 2021

Bree Dusseault is quoted in The Atlantic on districts' decisions on whether to give students a remote learning option.

Notes from our database: The latest on 2021-22’s rocky return to school

Aug 30 2021

This week, more districts are tightening health precautions and clarifying quarantine procedures.

More masks, more vaccines, more online learning, but what about quarantines? The latest on school district fall reopening

Aug 23 2021

Details are still emerging about how districts plan to manage the interruptions as students, or some entire classes or grades, miss days or even weeks of school because of exposure to COVID-19.

First look at ESSER priorities: Districts are placing their bets on what they know

Jul 15 2021

Our review finds few plans, at least so far, to invest stimulus funding in ways that will address long-term systemic challenges.

Hindsight is 2024: A premortem on districts' return to school

Apr 29 2021

We believe there are at least four reasons the $123 billion American Rescue Plan (ARP) stimulus funding could go wildly awry.

As urban districts prepare to reopen, most are not doing enough to communicate how they will keep students and teachers safe

Apr 12 2021

With access to vaccination, teachers and principals can focus more on academic recovery and serve as highly trusted messengers to families.

Our interviews with families and teachers in four New England high schools that serve low-income communities expose how ill-equipped New England schools were to address adolescent well-being during the pandemic.

How do we help schools prevent "back to normal" inertia and fuel change? This brief summarizes what we heard from a "change-maker" group of students, educators, and education leaders.