ULEAD: About

Utah Leading through Effective, Actionable, and Dynamic (ULEAD) Education

Utah Leading through Effective, Actionable, and Dynamic (ULEAD) Education was created to find, research, and highlight proven practices in Utah schools for replication statewide. ULEAD partners with practitioners, researchers, and education organizations to develop and curate resources, foster collaboration, and drive systemic change for improved student outcomes. The ULEAD Clearinghouse is a growing repository of innovative, effective, and efficient practice resources and tools to support educators.

Click the tabs below to learn more about the ULEAD Steering Committee, Current Priorities, and How We Work.

The ULEAD Education Steering Committee consists of the director and twelve additional members who “shall hold a meeting at least quarterly” to “discuss prospective and current ULEAD projects and findings; consult with and make recommendations to the director to prioritize ULEAD reports and areas of focused research; facilitate connections between the director and Utah’s political, business, education technology, and academic communities; make recommendations to improve gathering, retaining, and disseminating education data and research and evaluation findings for use by participating institutions and other education policy researchers, including data managed by the Utah Data Research Center.”Committee members are appointed to a two-year term and are eligible for more than one term.

Committee Member Designation	Name	Representing
ULEAD Director	Meghan Everette	ULEAD
USBE Member, co-chair	James Moss	Utah State Board of Education
State Superintendent or designee	Sarah Young	Office of the Superintendent
Staff Director of the State Charter School Board or designee	Paul Kremer	State Charter School Board
Governor's Office, co-chair	Brittney Cummins	Office of the Governor
School District Superintendent	David Long	Beaver School District, USSA
Local School Board Member	Amber Shill	Canyons School Board, USBA
Principal or leader, non-charter	Gregory Wilkey	Davis School District
Principal or leader, non-charter	Sue Damm	Coach, Davis School District previously Principal, SLCSD
Principal or leader, charter	Kelli Booth	Principal, NUAMES
Educator with a current license	Emma Moss	Canyons School District
Educator with a current license	Marley McClune	Davis School District
Citizen or business representative	Becky Pickle	Business Owner

Focus Priorities are determined from input from the field including members of the Steering Committee, legislative members responsible for public education, members of Utah professional education associations, policy-research centers, and the state superintendent. Work concerning focus areas is prioritized, but other topics may be included. Input from the field on suggested topics is welcome at any time by filling in the Research Request (Google Form) form.

Topic Areas
Student Achievement with a focus on the subtopics of:

Multilingual Learner Achievement
Middle School Mathematic Achievement

Focus Priorities

Educator Retention and Job Satisfaction, with an emphasis on teachers
Student Attendance
Student Success through Engagement with Technology
Student Success through Social Emotional Supports Grounded in Classroom Practice

If you have promising outcomes related to these or other relevant topics, please share with us in our Promising Practice Submission (Google Form) form.

The ULEAD Focus priorities are informed by field feedback including input from the Steering Committee, available research, and suggested topics. These priorities drive ULEAD work including creating connections to information, research on the priorities, and highlighting innovative work. Once published, ULEAD engages stakeholders with the available information, practices, researchers, and practitioners. This process promotes timely research cycles, ideally lasting under a year.

ULEAD engages research partners to identify outliers, research the practice that led to positive outcomes, and identify how to scale the practice including suggestions for adaptation, adoption, or limitations to replication. These reports are published in the ULEAD repository.