President and CEO
Virginia Ed Strategies, United States
Jennifer Stevens, M.Ed., President and CEO of Virginia Ed Strategies, began her career in 1995, first serving as a teacher in Halifax County, VA and then moving on to lead education projects with Longwood University, Virginia Tech, and NASA Langley Research Center. In 2007, she led a team of leaders to secure a $13M grant from the National Math and Science Initiative to start the nonprofit, Virginia Advanced Study Strategies – now known as Virginia Ed Strategies. Stevens has been in a leadership role with the organization since that time and has served as its President and CEO since 2019.
As part of her work with the organization, Jennifer is the Project Director for CHOICE, a $10.8M Education Innovation and Research (EIR) initiative funded by the US Department of Education (USED) in FY2020 which provides financial resources and support services to over 1000 teachers across Virginia while studying the impacts of giving educators autonomy in their professional learning. Since its inception in 2007, Virginia Ed Strategies has garnered over $45M in private and federal funding to positively impact K-12 and has been the recipient of two other multi-million-dollar USED grants to research and develop new, innovative education models, for which Stevens has provided programmatic and fiscal oversight.
Jennifer has presented at numerous state and national conferences on topics related to education, career exploration, and the importance of work-based learning opportunities for youth. With Virginia Ed Strategies being an affiliate of James Madison University, Stevens is a faculty member of JMU’s College of Education.
Jennifer lives in Virginia Beach with her husband, John, and they are the proud parents of 5 sons – Jared, Noah, Caleb, Isaac, and Levi.
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Empowering Educators, Enhancing Outcomes: The CHOICE Model for Autonomous Professional Learning
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