Haidee K. Williams
Project Director
Haidee Williams is a Project Director with SEDL's Improving School Performance program. Ms. Williams provides consultations, training, and technical assistance addressing standards-based science instruction and assessment as part of SEDL’s Texas Comprehensive Center (TXCC). She also serves as SEDL’s primary liaison to the Texas Education Agency (TEA). The services she provides help build the capacity of state department of education staff in Texas to meet the goals and purposes of the No Child Left Behind Act and other federal mandates. These efforts are part of the TXCC project, which provides technical assistance and support to the TEA to ensure that Texas has an education system with the capacity and commitment to eliminate achievement gaps and enable all students to achieve at high levels.
Contact Information
You may contact Haidee K. Williams at 512-391-6566
Ms. Williams’s interests include change management, English language learners, high school reform, translation of research to practice, and K–12 science education.
- Change Process: Ms. Williams has 13 years of experience working within or providing technical assistance to educational organizations. As a curriculum director, she worked at multiple levels of the school system to align instruction to newly adopted state standards and to provide support through the alignment of district and campus improvement plans. She continued this work in multiple districts as the technical assistance provider at the Texas Region 13 Education Service Center and then in collaboration with the TEA to manage the change process to improve schools throughout Texas.
- School Improvement: As a technical assistance provider, Ms. Williams has provided support to educators to improve high school programs, mathematics and science education, and education for English language learners.
- Science Education: Ms. Williams has 26 years of experience in science education: 18 years teaching a variety of science courses in the secondary classroom, 3 years working with classes composed entirely of English language learners, and 9 years working with gifted and talented students.
- Organizational Relations and Policy: For 6 years, Ms. Williams has worked with state and national education agencies to develop and implement educational policy and regulations. She provides technical assistance by regularly meeting with agency leaders. This work has focused on state and national challenges, research implications, strategies to implement policy and regulations, and training support. Her work in this requires she be a critical friend while maintaining positive relations to help education agencies improve learning opportunities for all students.
Prior to joining SEDL in July 2004, Ms. Williams worked for 5 years as a science specialist for the Texas Region 13 Education Service Center, where she managed the Title II cooperative and provided professional development addressing the needs of science education for grades preK–12. She also served as a curriculum coordinator for 2 years and as a classroom teacher for 21 years at Channelview Independent School District in Channelview, Texas. Education
Ms. Williams holds a BS in health and physical education from Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, and an MS in science education and curriculum from the University of Houston. She also has a mid-management certification from Texas Southern University and an English Language Learner Certification from the Region 13 Education Service Center in Austin, Texas. SEDL Publications
- Class Time and Student Learning: Texas Comprehensive Center Briefing Paper, Number 6 (2011)
- Meeting the Needs of Diverse Learners: Texas Comprehensive Center Briefing Paper, Number 7 (2011)
- Teenage Parents and Their Educational Attainment: Texas Comprehensive Center Briefing Paper, Number 5 (2011)
- Title III Supplemental Funds: Creative Ways to Support the Education of English Language Learners in Texas Schools: Texas Comprehensive Center Briefing Paper, Number 4 (2010)
- Williams, H. K., Latham, P., McQueeney, C., Swanson, I., Perez, L., & Honeycutt, L. (2007). Strategies for English language learners in secondary science.
- Rivas, M., Molina, C., Latham, P., McQueeney, C., & Williams, H. K. (2006). Strategies for English language learners in secondary mathematics.
- Williams, H. K. (2006). Understanding AYP campus data. TXCC Annual Forum.
