Edit Khachatryan is a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Foundation, supporting system transformation work through improvement science.
Edit is an improvement facilitator, researcher, and educator with a mission to create lasting educational improvements by facilitating, strengthening, and studying collaborative learning and problem solving among educators. Before joining the Foundation, Edit served as a teacher and leader developer for various schools and districts, a teacher educator, and a Teaching Ambassador fellow at the U.S. Department of Education. She started her career as a high school history, government, and economics teacher in Los Angeles.
Edit’s scholarly work has focused on feedback on teaching from classroom observations, teacher and leader professional development, and improvement coaching. Her most recent publications include an article with Emma Parkerson on how to organize the social dimensions of school improvement in Kappan magazine, a book chapter on improvement coaching with Barbara Shreve and Jon Eckert in Continuous Improvement: A Leadership Process for School Improvement, and another book chapter on teacher leadership development through NIC participation with Emma Parkerson in Catalytic Improvement Communities: Cultivating Flourishing Schools.
In order to truly address educational disparities and ensure sustainable change for our most vulnerable students, Edit believes that we must invest in accessing and integrating scholarly and practitioner expertise within our system. Edit holds a B.A. in sociology, two master’s degrees and teaching and administrative credentials from UCLA, and a Ph.D. in curriculum and teacher education from Stanford University.
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