Kristin Mitchell

Vice President, Edvance Research, Inc.

Kristin Mitchell is a founding partner of Edvance Research, Inc. and serves as vice president for emerging practices. In this position she is responsible for following trends in education, and identifying and keeping educators informed about new evidence-based programs and practices that show promising results. Mitchell is a recognized leader in the areas of process and quality improvement, strategic planning and performance measurement.

Due to her extensive experience helping educators identify process and quality improvement practices, Mitchell is routinely approached by national organizations, such as the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Innovation and Improvement (OII), to provide leadership and guidance for developing project frameworks and improvement tools.

Prior to joining Edvance Research, Mitchell was an integral part of the Education Initiative with the American Productivity and Quality Center (APQC). At APQC she served as a program manager for the Baldrige in Education Initiative, a national effort bringing excellence and equity to education through the implementation of Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award criteria and other quality tools. She also oversaw two significant collaborative benchmarking studies that examined best practices in teacher preparation programs and improving procurement processes for statewide assessments.

In addition to her role as Edvance Research’s vice president of emerging practices, Mitchell is also the director of technical assistance for REL Southwest. As head of this unit, her focus is to help states and education organizations in the laboratory’s five-state region build capacity for making evidence-based decisions. Mitchell holds a bachelor's degree in business administration with a concentration in management, and a master's degree in communication studies, both from Texas Tech University.

Primary Presenter for: Building Achievement Through Choice: An Online Toolkit

Presenter for: BuildingChoice: Improving Public School Choice Programs