served as a writer-editor & publications manager for a Regional Educational Laboratory funded by the US Department of Education
“I have had the opportunity to work with Sherri as she has developed both the REL Annual Report and the products for student-centered learning. Sherri has demonstrated a high degree of professional skills in working with staff on product development. She conveyed both a sense of design and order for improvement in the Personalization Guidebooks that helped our program officer envision a document that would be helpful in the field. She ensures that every product she is working on meets high standards of quality. I find her highly responsive to my questions and she is able to provide excellent rationale for the decisions that need to be made. Further, Sherri is always respectful and thoughtful in her interactions with staff.”—Mary-Beth Fafard, Executive Director, Northeast and Islands Regional Educational Laboratory at Brown University
“I’ve been tremendously impressed with the quality of Sherri’s work, her commitment to the Student Centered Learning team, and her unwavering focus on accurately representing program work in the SCL portfolio. She has shown great skill in organizing work with staff, posing thought-provoking and clarifying questions during the revision process, identifying fundamental issues needing to be addressed, conferring with and giving feedback to staff so that they could improve their documents, and more. Her persistence in attending to detail as we compiled the final draft of the portfolio was very noteworthy and clear evidence of the high standards to which she holds herself. She has also been a very helpful, steady, and knowledgeable colleague and someone with whom it has been a pleasure to work.” —Cynthia Jorgensen, Quality Assurance & Policy Specialist, The Education Alliance/Northeast and Islands Regional Educational Laboratory