Lynn Winters
Lynn Winters was the Assistant Superintendent for
Research at Long Beach Unified School District,
nationally recognized by the President and the
Broad Prize for implementing systems for data
guided decision making. She currently evaluates
three Federal School Leadership Programs for CSU
Dominguez Hills, advises CGU Urban Leadership
dissertation students, and is an adjunct in the CGU
Urban Leadership program.
Prior positions include training data teams for the
Los Angeles County Office of Education, and consulting with Denver
Public Schools and the Baton Rouge School District on organization of
their research departments. She was a Lecturer in Social Research
Methods at the UCLA Graduate School of Education for 23 years, and a
high school teacher (history, Spanish and special education) for 12 years;
county office assessment consultant; and Director of Research for Palos
Verdes Schools. She was a Project Director for three grants at the UCLA
National Center for Evaluation, Student Standards and Testing (CRESST).
She has co-authored three books with Joan Herman of UCLA CRESST, The
Turnaround Toolkit, (Corwin Press), A Practical Guide to Alternative
Assessment (ASCD), and Tracking Your School’s Success (Corwin Press),
and was a reviewer for Practical Assessment, Research and Evaluation
(PARE), the AERA journal Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis
(EEPA), and Educational Assessment. In addition, she has over a dozen
published journal articles and regularly presents at the American
Educational Research Association’s Annual Meeting.