Sarah Hughes
Sarah Hughes is a Senior Research Associate at RMC with over 25 years of experience supporting educators and leaders. She serves as the partnership lead on the Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Southeast to support highly effective emergent literacy professional learning. Ms. Hughes provides intensive technical assistance (TA) to state education agencies served by the Gulf Comprehensive Center (Gulf CC) at RMC through facilitation, professional learning, and systems development.
In addition, she has supported the New Hampshire Department of Education’s Best Practices: Preparing Excellent Reading Teachers project. She has worked in professional learning, research-to-practice product development, implementation, and dissemination through national TA centers, including the Region 7 CC, REL Southeast, and National Center on Improving Literacy.
Ms. Hughes has engaged leaders to strengthen early childhood education, emergent literacy practice, and P-3 approaches by promoting highly effective practices and strengthening collaborative relationships. She has experience working with state agencies to assess needs, provide support, align information and materials across systems, and support scaling using improvement cycles.
EDUCATION: B.S. in political science from State University of New York Oneonta
AREAS OF EXPERTISE: Professional learning and support for early childhood, early elementary, literacy, PreK-3rd grade, and family literacy
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