Résumé
Sean Parker
Data Team Consultant
"My passions are teaching, learning and statistics."—Sean
Experience:
- Nonprofit CEO, Founder and Teacher, 2012 to Present
Schools Count Incorporated- Make a dream a reality.
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Data Team Consulting, 2007 to Present
- Work with teams of teachers to define and understand the racial/ethnic and socio-economic achievement gaps in their school.
- Work with teams of teachers to help identify students at risk of failing high-stakes assessments based on prior scores, demographics, and current grades.
- Work with teams of teachers to evaluate educational interventions to support at-risk students.
- Work with teams of teachers to review and assess curricula.
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Statistical Consulting, 2007 to Present
- Evaluate educational and psychological interventions.
- Support doctoral candidates planning, researching and writing their dissertations.
- Conduct training sessions in statistical software.
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Lecturer, Tufts University, 2008 to 2013
- Designed and taught Introductory Data Analysis.
- Designed and taught Intermediate Data Analysis.
- Consulted and workshoped for individual projects.
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Teaching Fellow, Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2007 to 2009
- Assisted Dan Koretz' Understanding Today's Educational Testing.
- Assisted Terry Tivnan's Empirical Methods: Introduction to Statistics for Research.
- Assisted Judy Singer's Intermediate Statistics: Applied Regression and Data Analysis.
- Assisted Dan Koretz' Methods of Educational Measurement.
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Teacher, Department of Youth Services, Summers 2006, 2007, 2008
Forestry Camp, Brewster, Massachusetts- Team-taught juvenile offenders in a one-room school house.
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Teacher, Ninth-Grade English, 2001 to 2004
Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School, South Yarmouth, Massachusetts- Worked within a team of four teachers, a counselor, and a principal.
- Researched and taught success on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System.
- Created a grant-funded 9th-Grade to 5th-Grade Shakespeare Connection--Romeo and Juliet.
- Judged for Destination ImagiNation, an International Creative-Thinking Contest.
- Certified in Massachusetts for English 9-12, Certificate #367225.
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Substitute Teacher, 1998 to 2005
Various Stints in Bourne, Massachusetts and Santa Fe, New Mexico- Subbed from K to 12, from autistic to gifted, from inner-city to suburban classes.
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Guidance Intern, 1996 to 1997
Sullivan Middle School, Worcester, Massachusetts- Tutored and counseled troubled students referred by the guidance department.
- Collected and analyzed qualitative and quantitative data for the Worcester Juvenile Court in order to assess its pilot School-Based Probation Program.
Education
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Doctor of Education in Human Development and Education, In Progress
Master of Education, June 2006
(Researching Statistical Consulting for Data Teams)
Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Data-Analytic Coursework:- S-010 Answering Questions with Quantitative Data
- S-030 Intermediate Statistics: Applied Regression and Data Analysis
- S-710 Participant Observation in Context
- S-052 Applied Data Analysis
- T-800 Research and Evidence: Framing Scientific Research for Public Understanding
- A-205 Microeconomics: A Policy Tool for Educators
- S-061 Methods of Educational Measurement
- S-290 Quantitative Methods for Improving Causal Inference in Educational Research
- S-077 Applied Longitudinal Data Analysis
- Stat135 Statistical Computing Software
- Stat149 Statistical Sleuthing through Generalized Linear Models
- S-413 Doctoral Research Practicum: Using Quantitative Methods to Make Causal Inferences about the Consequences of Educational Initiatives and Policies
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Master of Arts in Liberal Arts, June 2004
(Math & Science, Politics & Society, Philosophy & Theology, and Literature)
St. John's College, Santa Fe, New Mexico -
Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Philosophy, June 1998
Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa
(Certificates in School Psychology and Human Services)
Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts
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