Gausman-Burnett, Robyn

Bio

Robyn Gausman-Burnett graduated from Villanova University and The New School for Social Research. She holds several graduate certificates, including concentrations in special education, technology integration, and instructional design.

Over the past seventeen years, she taught math, business, and social studies, spending time at schools in Korea, China, and across the United States. For the past five years, she has been working with schools as a curriculum director and consultant, supporting teachers as they merge knowledge-rich instruction with standards-based assessment to develop project-based and cross-disciplinary models of instruction for the evolving primary and secondary classroom. In her capacity as both an administrator and consultant, she has successfully guided organizations through processes such as regional accreditation, the adoption of advanced professional development tools and assessment metrics, and the redesign of internal data management protocols. Her ongoing commitment involves collaborating with schools to facilitate academic transformations, achieve accreditation, devise strategic plans, and foster professional development.

Robyn began her research in school-level transformation back in 2007 with an investigation into teacher efficacy, school professional development practices, and compensation models in the (DoDEA) schools of Europe and the Pacific. Her dissertation develops geographic and computational methods for comparing complex institutional systems over time, particularly when boundaries, providers, and reporting structures change. Her methods address the challenge of longitudinal comparability, spatial representation, and the measurement of institutional reorganization, with applications in educational geography, public policy, and other systems characterized by changing geographic and organizational structures.