Sharnell Jackson
Sharnell S. Jackson serves Global Learning and Leadership as a director and senior advisor. She provides insight regarding use of student achievement data to support instructional decision making and for strategies to transform instruction and learning. Sharnell is a nationally recognized educational instructional leadership technology consultant; coach; and executive strategist for school districts and schools, foundations, and commercial firms. She has thirty-six years of K-12 experience as a Golden Apple classroom teacher, NASA Master Teacher, and as assistant principal. She possesses abilities for highly engaging instruction of Math and Science, literacy, use of educational technology, and for curriculum development. She has served as a computer science specialist and as an educational technology director at the state level. Sharnell served as the Executive Officer of Enterprise Information and e-Learning for Chicago Public Schools, and for state education departments and regional educational laboratories nation-wide.
Sharnell is the Founder/CEO of Data-Driven Innovations Consulting (DDIC). The firm provides strategic instructional recommendations, implementation planning, professional learning and assists in developing organizational and technological conditions to foster effective systematic processes for using data to enable teachers to make optimum instructional decisions to meet all students’ learning needs. She co-authored the U.S. Department of Education (ED) Institute of Education Sciences Practice Guide: Using Student Achievement Data to Support Instructional Decision Making, and is co-author of “Transforming Teaching and Learning Through Data-Driven Decision Making”. She has made many keynote addresses and authored curriculum instructional white papers/publications regarding data use, online learning, computer science, enterprise systems, and on educational technology for ED and corporations worldwide.
During her career she served as a longitudinal data systems work group member commissioned by NCES, data model task force member for the National Forum on Education Statistics PK-12, and as member of the Regional Advisory Committee to advise ED on technical assistance needs of educators. She served as a board member for Schools Interoperability Framework, Consortium for School Networking, Illinois Technology Foundation, and for Professor Garfield Foundation. Sharnell served as an advisor for International Society for Technology in Education National Technology Standards, Microsoft K-12, and for the NASA Master Teacher Program. She received the Illinois Presidential Science Award, Golden Apple Teaching Award, Apple Distinguished Educator Award and is the Past President-elect of the Illinois Computing Educators.
Ms. Jackson received multiple Masters in Education, Leadership in Curriculum and Instruction at National Louis University; Science, Mathematics and Instructional Technology, NASA Fellowship at Wheeling Jesuit University; Educational Administration and Supervision at Lewis Jesuit University; Science Education at Aurora University; and Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry and Environmental Studies at the University of Chicago.