Diana Wogan

About

Diana Wogan, a project director and technical assistance specialist at EDC, co-leads the Maine Partnership to Support Innovative and Equitable Educational Opportunities. She is an expert in social and emotional learning (SEL), the whole child approach, and policy analysis.

Wogan contributes to a wide range of EDC initiatives and has co-authored publications on continuous improvement, cultural competency, and stakeholder engagement. She is a member of EDC’s SEL & Mental Health Academy team and serves on the Knowledge Alliance’s Board of Directors. In all her work, she seeks to ensure that education policy draws on practitioners’ lessons and research to improve student achievement and well-being.

Wogan holds a MA in Political Science from Northeastern University.

Email: dwogan@edc.org

Associated IES Content

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Making Sense of Educational Assessment: A New Fact Sheet for Educators

This blog introduces a new REL Northeast & Islands factsheet to promote assessment literacy. The blog discusses the different types of educational assessments and how district, school, and teacher leaders can put assessment results to use.
Date published:
Jun 15, 2023
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New Toolkit Helps Schools Use Continuous Processes to Solve Problems

REL Northeast & Islands recently developed a new toolkit to help schools and districts engage in continuous improvement processes. Practitioners can use the toolkit to focus on a specific problem of practice and, through a series of iterative cycles, test changes, gather data about the changes, and study the potential influence of these changes on outcomes of interest. This new resource was conceived in response to a local Northeast & Islands Region need. Cassandra Townshend, Director of Spec...
Date published:
Dec 22, 2020
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New Guide Supports Educators in Selecting and Implementing SEL Interventions

With the anxiety and uncertainty students are facing during a global pandemic, it is more important than ever to support their social and emotional learning (SEL). As educators look for ways to support SEL in the classroom, it is imperative that they can identify programs or practices that have shown evidence of effectiveness. REL Northeast & Islands has a new tool that can help teachers do just that. The Social and Emotional Learning Coaching Series Guide condenses content from a series of f...
Date published:
Oct 01, 2020
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Continuous Improvement in Education: A Toolkit for Schools and Districts

This toolkit is designed to help school- and district-based practitioners engage in a continuous improvement effort. It provides an overview of continuous improvement and focuses on the Plan-Do-Study-Act cycle. It includes tools and resources that practitioners can use to implement a continuous improvement effort in their own schools, districts, or agencies.
Oct 01, 2020
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Ask A REL Answers Your Important Research Questions

When Anne McKernan, director of secondary education at West Hartford Public Schools, was assigned to a district committee to look at the challenges and opportunities associated with later school start times, she wanted to begin by looking at research on the topic. So, she submitted a question to REL Northeast & Islands' Ask A REL service, which she had learned about in a previous job. Ask A REL is a free service that helps educators and policymakers better understand and access research on a ...
Date published:
Jul 01, 2019