As senior improvement specialist and research lead at WestEd, Jonathan Dolle is responsible for conceptualizing, planning, and implementing new approaches to field-based collaborative research focused on continuous improvement.

In this capacity, Dolle directs a networked improvement community comprised of five high school-community college partners working to reduce the number of under-served students who enter college needing math remediation. He also leads the design, development, and delivery of continuous improvement technical assistance to a network of eleven California State University teacher preparation programs working to improve the pre-service clinical experience of candidates. And he provides strategic technical assistance to Regional Educational Laboratory West (REL West) partnerships and alliances engaged in continuous improvement.

Prior to joining WestEd, Dolle was at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching where he led the network development and evaluation strategy for the Community College Pathways Program. While at Carnegie he served as founding director of Carnegie's Post-Baccalaureate Fellowship Program, an intensive two-year training program introducing recent college graduates to rigorous training in improvement science methods and their application to educational systems.

Dolle was also a Mirzayan science and technology fellow at the National Academy of Sciences, where he staffed the NRC report, Using Science as Evidence in Public Policy (2012).

Dolle has a BS in systems engineering, a BA in philosophy, and an MA in educational policy studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and an MA in philosophy of science and a PhD in education from Stanford University.