Eduvate
Consulting and Program Development supporting innovations in formal education systems and informal learning environments, with a focus on technology as a catalyst for learning, teaching, and assessment.
Eduvate
Consulting and Program Development supporting innovations in formal education systems and informal learning environments, with a focus on technology as a catalyst for learning, teaching, and assessment.
STRATEGY :: POLICY :: ANALYSIS :: IMPACT
Eduvate works with organizations interested in improving education systems and expanding opportunities for all learners including: K-12 and Higher Education institutions and initiatives; technology companies and edtech startups; museums, public media, and other informal learning providers; national governments; state departments of education; public and charter school districts; nonprofits and non-governmental organizations; foundations and grant-making entities; educational outreach programs; open educational resource (OER) networks; and others.
Services
Services
Eduvate provides a range of services customized to each client's needs -- from analysis of current practices and products, to strategic visioning and business development planning; from education policy intelligence to learner-centered program design support, to building partner networks and user communities. Eduvate excels at facilitating the systems thinking of organizations and illuminating the infrastructure and process needs at different scales that are vital to addressing complex issues.
Whether serving as a consulting expert, partnering advisor, startup mentor, or embedded project manager, Eduvate works with client teams to create outcomes that support meaningful insights, actionable data, and sustainable transformations.
About
About
Susan Van Gundy, CEO / Founder
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Susan Van Gundy is a dynamic and innovative leader, with more than twenty years of experience in national-scale program design and deployment emphasizing educational impact, technology strategy, organizational growth, sustainability planning, project management, strategic partnership building, and community engagement. She possesses diverse expertise focused on educational technology infrastructure and policy; Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education and workforce development; open educational resources (OER); data interoperability; collaborative knowledge networks; museums and science centers; teacher professional development; and educational outreach.
Susan is the former Director of Technology for the Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (the PARCC Assessment Consortium), where she provided leadership for technical systems development, technology-enhanced assessment design, technical standards implementation and interoperability, and school technology readiness.
Van Gundy is also the former Director of Education and Strategic Partnerships for the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) and Deputy Director of the NSDL Resource Center, where she was responsible for orchestrating national-scale digital learning resource initiatives, and brokering cross-sector collaborations among stakeholders and policymakers. In addition, Susan was part of the initial team that conceptualized and developed the Learning Registry, an initiative of the U.S. Department of Education intended to better connect educators to effective teaching and learning materials.
Susan’s early career focused on inquiry-based learning, outreach education, citizen science, and teacher professional development, through leadership roles at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, and the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry.
Susan serves on numerous educational technology and science education advisory boards, and speaks frequently at conferences and workshops.