Vicki Dimock
Chief Program Officer
Vicki Dimock is SEDL's Chief Program Officer. In this role, Dr. Dimock coordinates and directs SEDL's programmatic efforts to build capacity to use evidence-based policies, programs, and practices to address compelling educational needs. She also serves as the director of the Texas Comprehensive Center.
Contact Information
You may contact Vicki Dimock at 512-391-6511
Dr. Dimock has more than 30 years of experience working with educators to improve educational experiences and outcomes for children and youth. Prior to her current position, she served as program director for the Improving School Performance Program at SEDL, which builds capacity at the state, district, and school levels to improve educational outcomes. She also applied her research, development, and dissemination skills as program manager of the Science, Technology, and Mathematics Program at SEDL, which assists educational entities in improving mathematics and science education and in implementing technology to support improved teaching and learning outcomes for students. She was the project director of SEDL's Arkansas AdVentures in Networking project and a research associate in SEDL's Leadership for Change project. In 2007, she co-authored the book Technology as a Catalyst for School Communities: Beyond Boxes and Bandwidth.
Before coming to SEDL, Dr. Dimock served as an education specialist at a Texas regional education service center providing technical assistance to low-performing schools and to mathematics teachers across the region and state. She was also coordinator of a district program for gifted students and a K–12 teacher in mathematics and social sciences. Education
Dr. Dimock holds a BS in education from Midwestern State University, an MEd in educational administration from Texas Woman's University, and a PhD in curriculum and instruction from the University of Texas at Austin. SEDL Publications
- Working Systemically in Action: Engaging Family & Community (2010)
- Texas Focus: The Newsletter of the Texas Comprehensive Center (2009)
- Texas Focus, Vol. 1, No. 4 (2008): Collecting, Interpreting and Using Data in the Working Systemically Approach (2008)
- Technology as a Catalyst for School Communities: Beyond Boxes and Bandwidth (2007)
- Digital Anatomy: Students Creating Online Resources (2002)
- Authentic Algebra (2001)
- Creative Geometry (2001)
- 2nd Grade Classroom Episode: The Desert (2000)
- 4th Grade Bilingual Classroom Episode: Graphing (2000)
- 6th Grade Classroom Episode: Collaborative Language Arts (2000)
- 9th Grade Classroom Episode: Spanish Travelers (2000)
- Active Learning with Technology (ALT) Portfolio (2000)
- Active Learning with Technology Video Series (2000)
- Classrooms Under Construction: Integrating Student-Centered Learning with Technology (2000)
- Planning into Practice: Resources for Planning, Implementing, and Integrating Technology (2000)
- Reading Buddies: 1st and 5th Graders Learning Together (2000)
- TAP into Learning v3.2: Learning is an Active and Reflective Process (2000)
- Constructing Knowledge with Technology: A Review of the Literature (1999)
- Engaged Discoverers: Kids Constructing Knowledge with Technology (1999)
- TAP into Learning v1.2: On the Road to Student-Centered Learning (1999)
- TAP into Learning v1.1: Getting Started with Constructivism and Technology (1998)
- Lessons in Professional Development - What Educators Should Know When Technology Comes to School, SEDL Letter, Volume IX, Number 4 (1996)
- Leading Change from the Classroom: Teachers as Leaders: Issues About Change, Volume 4, Number 4 (1995)
- Schools as Learning Communities: Issues About Change, Volume 4, Number 1 (1994)
- Superintendents of Small Districts and School Improvement: Planning, Providing Resources, and Professional Development: Issues About Change, Volume 3, Number 1 (1993)
- Creating a Context for Change: Issues About Change, Volume 2, Number 2 (1992)
