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Dr. Sharon Ritchie

Senior Research Scientist, Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute; Director, First School Project at FPG

Sharon Ritchie is a Senior Scientist at the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her education experience spans 40 years, working as a teacher, program director, teacher educator and researcher.

For the past 12 years, she has been the Director of FirstSchool, a PreK-3 Public School reform initiative committed to improving the school experiences of African American, Latino and low-income children and their families. The work is dedicated to seeing continuous improvement as the mindset and collaborative inquiry as the process for growth and change, and reform driven by high-quality instructional practices, and the effective use of data and research.

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