Center for Online Professional Education
Jill Weber
Jill Weber is the Project Director for NEIRTEC (New England and the Islands Regional Technology in Education Consortium), and for the Gates-funded Massachusetts Technology Leadership Consortium (MA-TLC).
In her work with NEIRTEC, she has directed an innovative course (“Designing for Technology Integration”) that uses both online and face-to-face components to support district leaders in designing professional development programs. Her current work focuses on issues of technology planning and implementation with state and local leaders. Her research interests focus on the role that reflective practice protocols play in content-focused professional development programs, on ways that immersion models of professional development can connect to classroom teaching and learning strategies, and on the connection of action research (supported by handheld technologies) to improved teaching and learning. She is currently working on using performance-based strategic planning and measurement to inform programmatic improvement at the school, district and organizational level. Before joining COPE, Jill was the director of Project MEET (at TERC), a $10M Technology Innovation Challenge Grant that focused on providing job-embedded professional development to teacher leaders in districts across Massachusetts.
Jill is a former elementary teacher, middle school math teacher and K-8 technology coordinator. She holds an M.Ed. in Technology Integration from Harvard University and earned a B.S. with a science concentration in K-8 education from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She also earned an MBA from the University of Dayton-Ohio. She currently serves as Adjunct Faculty for Lesley University (Graduate School of Education Master's Program in Educational Technology) and Framingham State College (Graduate and Continuing Education).
Jill Weber
Project Director
jweber@edc.org
