Amber Stitziel Pareja is a Senior Research Analyst at UChicago Consortium. Her current work focuses on school leadership, in particular the mechanisms through which school leadership influences instruction and student learning and the principal preparation redesign process in Illinois. Previously, Pareja was the project director of a study of the transition from eighth to ninth grade, as well as a study examining the efficacy of online versus face-to-face courses for algebra credit recovery. She received her PhD in human development and social policy from Northwestern University and she formerly worked as a bilingual (Spanish-English) third-grade teacher.
