{"id":144,"date":"2015-12-13T15:26:40","date_gmt":"2015-12-13T15:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jayforschoolcommittee.com\/2025\/?page_id=144"},"modified":"2024-12-28T06:30:37","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T06:30:37","slug":"professional-experience","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.jayforschoolcommittee.com\/2025\/professional-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Professional Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eileen Jay has devoted herself to improving education. She earned a Doctor\u2019s Degree in Education (Ed.D.) from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and has published books and journal articles in the field. From her professional work as an educational researcher at Harvard University, Eileen brings an in-depth understanding of teaching and learning. In her research, she has delved deeply into studying how students learn and how schools can create learning environments that foster creative and critical thinking. Her professional insights have been extremely valuable in helping the Superintendent and School Committee shape the educational vision and priorities for our school system.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Doctorate in Education &#8211; Harvard Graduate School of Education<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nEd.D. Human Development (Cognitive Psychology), 1996<br \/>\nEd.M. Interactive Technology in Education, 1984<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Educational Researcher &#8211; Harvard University<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nconducted multiple educational research projects<br \/>\nat Project Zero with Howard Gardner &amp; David Perkins<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Published books &amp; journal articles<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nCo-author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pz.harvard.edu\/resources\/the-thinking-classroom-learning-and-teaching-in-a-culture-of-thinking\"><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The Thinking Classroom<\/span><\/em><\/a> on creating cultures of thinking in schools<br \/>\nPublished journal articles and chapters on creativity and thinking skills<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Areas of Research<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\ncreative and critical thinking, school cultures, creativity, teaching of thinking, science education, technology in education<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eileen Jay has devoted herself to improving education. She earned a Doctor\u2019s Degree in Education (Ed.D.) from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and has published books and journal articles in the field. From her professional work as an educational researcher at Harvard University, Eileen brings an in-depth understanding of teaching and learning. In her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":12,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-144","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jayforschoolcommittee.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jayforschoolcommittee.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jayforschoolcommittee.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jayforschoolcommittee.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jayforschoolcommittee.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.jayforschoolcommittee.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1119,"href":"https:\/\/www.jayforschoolcommittee.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/144\/revisions\/1119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jayforschoolcommittee.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}