Andrew Wayne

Andrew Wayne develops, supervises, and leads work designed to improve K-12 education. In his corporate role, Dr. Wayne oversees a portfolio of over 30 research projects and numerous research staff focused on K-12 educators, principal leadership, and classroom instruction. He engages project directors, principal investigators, and other senior staff to ensure that AIR provides high-quality, timely, efficient services that meet client needs and add to the evidence base. He also sets strategic direction for business development, seeking to expand the portfolio’s contract- and grant-funded work with federal and foundation funders as well as state and local education agencies.

As a researcher, Dr. Wayne’s main line of work focuses on K-12 teachers and their professional learning. Over the last two decades, he conducted groundbreaking studies of professional learning programs and their impact on teacher and student outcomes. Through these studies, he helped schools and districts try out new practices and generated rigorous evidence that garnered national attention. The evidence advanced the field’s understanding of key strategies, such as instructional coaching, content-focused professional learning, and performance feedback for teachers. His most recent work examines efforts to help teachers leverage high-quality instructional materials.

Another line of Dr. Wayne’s work examines federal policy and its implementation. He led and contributed to major evaluations by AIR of state and local implementation of key provisions of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

Before coming to AIR in 2004, he was a middle and high school computer science teacher, and a researcher at SRI International.