Lacy Wood
Lacy Wood is Project Director with SEDL's Afterschool, Family, and Community program and with SEDL's Improving School Performance program. She is a staff member of SEDL's National Center for Family & Community Connections with Schools. She provides information management services for the Family and Community Connections team and clients. Ms. Wood leads work involving gathering and disseminating information, creating electronic information management tools, and developing online information services, including Web sites and databases.
You may contact Lacy Wood at 512-391-6567
Experience/Education
During her career at SEDL, Ms. Wood has worked with the Comprehensive School Reform (CSR) program and the Facilitating Implementation of Reform Strategies and Tactics (FIRST) project as an Information Specialist.
Prior to joining SEDL in December 1997, Ms. Wood worked for the University of Texas at Austin Development Office in the Research Services Department. She also worked as an Internet Consultant at the UT Undergraduate Library providing instruction for electronic information resources to students and faculty.
Ms. Wood holds a BA in History from Southwestern University and a Master of Library and Information Science from the University of Texas at Austin.
Publications
- A New Wave of Evidence: The Impact of School, Family, and Community Connections on Student Achievement (2002)
- Afterschool Curriculum Choice: Literacy Resources (2007)
- Afterschool Curriculum Choice: Mathematics Resources (2007)
- Beyond the Building: A Facilitation Guide for School, Family, and Community Connections (2006)
- Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement (CSRI) Web Site (2008)
- Connection Collection (2002)
- Consumers Guide to Afterschool Science Resources (2006)
- CSR Awards Database: Schools Awarded CSR Funds to Implement Comprehensive School Reform Models
- CSRD Connections: Whatever it Takes: The Challenge of Comprehensive Reform (2000)
- Diversity: School, Family, and Community Connections (2003)
- Easing the Transition from PreK to Kindergarten: What Schools and Families Can Do to Address Child Readiness (2005)
- Emerging Issues in School, Family, & Community Connections (2001)
- Readiness: School, Family, & Community Connections (2004)
- Reading First Awards Database (2003)
- Smaller Learning Communities (SLC) Awards Database (2003)