Jennifer Carolan
Teaching and Learning Specialist
Jennifer Carolan
Jennifer Carolan is a teaching and learning specialist in NewSchools Venture Fund’s West Coast office, where she focuses on management assistance and academic systems for the firm's portfolio ventures.
Before joining NewSchools, Jennifer was a secondary history teacher and a curriculum differentiation coach. While teaching in the public schools, Jennifer was involved in staff development, writing curriculum and sharing best practices. After seven years in the classroom, Jennifer developed a stronger theoretical foundation in curriculum and teacher education at the Stanford University School of Education. Jennifer is active in the Bay Area education community: she serves as an Advisory Board member for Aspire’s East Palo Alto Charter School, is a Challenge Success school coach, and has co-taught “No Teacher Left Behind: Rethinking the Traditional Teaching Career,” a class at Stanford School of Education/Design School. Jennifer has also published on differentiated instruction for Educational Leadership.
Jennifer has a teaching certificate and BA in Political Science from Loyola University, and an MA in Curriculum and Teacher Education from Stanford University. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family and her daughter attends a charter school.