CPED Partner Event

Designing Classes Around the Existing Evidence Base: Using the Annenberg Institute's EdExchange Resources

Date: Wednesday, March 25, 2026

Time: 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET 

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Presenters:

Christina Claiborne

Christina Claiborne is a Research Project Director, where she leads the EdResearch for Action brief creation process. In her work, she leads a board of practitioners and a team of researchers to create research synthesis briefs that distill key findings across various educational topics, specifically tailored for school and district leaders. These briefs are designed to provide clear, actionable insights that help inform decision-making processes, ensuring that leaders are equipped with a comprehensive understanding of the research to guide their strategies and interventions.

Prior to joining Annenberg, Christina was the Assistant Director of Academics in the Education Department at Brown University, where she taught classes on quantitative skills and the internship course for the Masters in Urban Education Policy program. Christina also taught high school math to honors, ESL, special education, and mainstream students in Central Falls, Rhode Island.

Christina teaches two courses on Evidence in Education as an Adjunct Lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and was previously an Adjunct Lecturer at Brown University.

Christina holds a master’s degree in Urban Education Policy from Brown University, and a bachelor’s in Economics and minor in Public Policy from the University of California, Berkeley.

Laura Booker

Laura Neergaard Booker is the Executive Director of Research at the Tennessee Department of Education. She has been with the department's Research and Strategy Team for over five years and currently leads the team that conducts research and acts as broker for several research-practice partnerships. Dr. Booker serves on the steering committee of the Tennessee Education Research Alliance and co-founded the education research podcast, The TNth Period. She earned her doctorate from the Department of Leadership, Policy, and Organizations at Vanderbilt University. Her dissertation focused on instructional practices and supports for beginning middle school math teachers. At Vanderbilt, she was a fellow in the Institute of Education Sciences-funded Experimental Education Research Training program and a research assistant for the National Center on Scaling Up Effective Schools. Prior to starting her studies at Vanderbilt, Dr. Booker worked as a research associate at the Center for Research in Educational Policy at the University of Memphis and taught second grade through Teach For America.

Nate Schwartz

Nate Schwartz is the Director of Applied Research and a Professor of the Practice at Brown University's Annenberg Institute for School Reform. In 2020, he co-founded the EdResearch for Recovery initiative, which collects requests for pandemic-related research guidance from education leaders and identifies teams of researchers across the country to build out quick-response evidence synthesis. He also serves as the research chair for the Research Partnership on Professional Learning (RPPL), a collaboration between the Annenberg Institute and a group of professional learning providers that aims to produce more actionable research on teacher professional learning. Schwartz previously held a position as the chief research and strategy officer for the Tennessee Department of Education. In this role, he led the department’s research and strategic planning teams, contributing to the launch of Tennessee Succeeds, a strategic plan and vision aimed at increasing postsecondary and career readiness for Tennessee's one million students, and to the creation of the Tennessee Education Research Alliance, an innovative state-level research partnership with Vanderbilt University. He started his career as a high school physics teacher.

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