#  Heather C. Hill 

Principal Investigator

Hazen-Nicoli Professor in Teacher Learning and Practice

Harvard Graduate School of Education

 

 

 



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Heather Hill studies policies and programs designed to improve teacher and teaching quality, particularly in mathematics. Her recent research focuses on teacher learning and professional development, the quality of mathematics instruction, the effectiveness of different approaches to teacher education, and machine learning tools that automate the measurement of instruction and feedback to teachers. Hill and her team have also created assessments that capture teachers’ mathematical knowledge for teaching and teachers’ mathematical quality of instruction and disseminated these assessments via online training and administration systems. Hill is an elected member of the National Academy of Education and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She also serves on the editorial boards of several journals and is an advisor to numerous research projects and policy efforts in both the U.S. and abroad. She is co-author of *Learning Policy: When State Education Reform Works* (2001) with David K. Cohen.