Victoria L. Bernhardt, Ph.D.,

Victoria L. Bernhardt, Ph.D., is Executive Director of the Education for the Future Initiative, a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to build the capacity of learning organizations at all levels to gather, analyze, and use data to continuously improve teaching and learning for all students. She is also a Professor (currently on leave) in the Department of Professional Studies in Education, College of Communication and Education, at California State University, Chico.

Dr. Bernhardt is passionate about her mission of helping all educators continuously improve student learning by using actual data - as opposed to using hunches and "gut-level" feelings. She has developed the SchoolPortfolio which highlights the processes of continuous improvement and provides a methodology to document these processes.


Education for the Future staff work with organizations as large as the U.S. Department of Education or as small as a rural school to facilitate their comprehensive data analyses and the creation and use of school and district portfolios. In addition to working in most of the 50 United States, Dr. Bernhardt has delivered presentations internationally, in Canada, Jordan, Australia, and for the US Department of Defense in multiple countries. To find out how Victoria will work with your group as a consultant, presenter, or keynote speaker on topics such as: Using Data to Improve Student Learning, Continuous Improvement, School Portfolios, and Data Warehousing, you may contact her directly.


Click here to learn more about attending EFF's Summer Data Analysis Institute (July 27th-31st, 2009).

Victoria L. Bernhardt
Executive Director,
Education for the Future