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Jessica Whalen
Senior Manager, Implementation Monitoring and Support
Jessica Whalen is the senior manager for the implementation monitoring and support team at Public Impact®. Whalen leads the development and deployment of the Opportunity Culture® portal, focusing on delivering low-cost, high-quality, user-friendly materials, live and on-demand content, and “what works” data analysis to help districts and schools extend the reach of excellent teaching to more students. She previously supported districts directly in implementing Opportunity Culture® models. Before joining Public Impact®, she taught secondary math in Tennessee and Kentucky, achieving dramatically increased student learning. She also served as an accountability data analyst for the Tennessee Department of Education, where she developed and implemented school and district accountability frameworks, and as a charter school application evaluator for North Carolina. For North Carolina State University, she created assessment items for a digital learning system based on learning trajectories for middle grades mathematics. In 2018, as a Social Impact Scholar, she received a scholarship for the Nashville Entrepreneur Center’s start-up program, awarded for scholars’ transformational ideas. Whalen holds an M.S. in education from the University of Kansas, and a B.S. in mathematics with a minor in psychology from the University of Alabama.