Meg Hudson, Ed.M., M.A.
Senior Associate
Ms. Hudson served as a classroom teacher for eight years in elementary and high schools. For the past 11 years, Ms. Hudson has assisted dozens of schools, ranging from pre-kindergarten to high school, throughout Northern California. She received her bachelor’s degree in Zoology from U.C. Berkeley, her master’s degree in education from Harvard Graduate School of Education, and her California administrative credential from San Francisco State University. Before joining G&A in September 2001, she served as an Education Partners mentor teacher at six reconstituted schools within the San Francisco Unified School District. While at Education Partners, she co-developed and facilitated a yearlong new teacher support program with more than 30 teachers at four school sites.
During the past seven years, Ms. Hudson worked as an external evaluator and state monitor in over 35 schools in ten districts, supporting the development and implementation of action plans to improve student achievement. Ms. Hudson has also worked as an evaluator of various district-level state and federal initiatives, such as Reading First (Pittsburg Unified), Early Reading First (Oakland Unified), California Math and Science Partnership (Oakland Unified and San Francisco Unified), and Comprehensive School Reform (San Francisco Unified).
Since 2003, Ms. Hudson has worked with Pittsburg Unified School District as the external evaluator for their Reading First grant. In this capacity, she has worked closely with the Reading First coordinator to develop plans and protocols for data collection, review documentation to ensure that LEA and site-level assurances are met, analyze and prepare reports of formative and summative data for district leadership, co-facilitate coaches’ meetings, and develop the annual end of year evaluation and action plan that meets state requirements.
As coordinator of field research for OUSD’s three-million dollar federal Early Reading First grant for the past two years, Ms. Hudson led a team in administering bi-annual assessments of 275 ERF students and their matched cohort at comparison sites, observed 70 Open Court lessons in Early Reading First classrooms annually using the ECERS scale as well as locally developed rubrics, conducted staff interviews and surveys of all ERF staff, developed quarterly and end-of-year evaluations, and worked closely with district leadership to analyze the collected data and implement practical solutions to the identified challenges.
Ms. Hudson has had excellent success in working with underperforming schools. In the first year of II/USP program implementation, 100% of her elementary schools exceeded their API growth targets. Two schools made growth of over 100 API points in just one year. Ms. Hudson is an approved California Department of Education (CDE) external evaluator and lead for conducting SAIT academic audits. As a SAIT provider, Ms. Hudson has assisted schools and districts with targeting support and resources to address student needs through structured curricular planning meetings, data analysis, classroom coaching, and focused leadership.