Dominique Bradley

Dr. Dominique Bradley serves as co-PI and implementation evaluation lead for evaluations of the Community Schools Initiative, Full Service Community Schools, and Sustainable Community Schools for Chicago Public Schools. She is also the research lead and project director for the Community Partnership Schools Initiative evaluation with the University of Central Florida.  

Dr. Bradley’s research on community school initiatives focuses on implementation practices and how these initiatives can support improved outcomes for students, families, and schools. Dr. Bradley currently leads efforts to redesign the needs assessment, service planning, and progress monitoring systems (Learning and Revisioning Network) for Chicago Public Schools and Florida’s Community Partnership Schools.  

Dr. Bradley also serves as the co-principal investigator and technical assistance lead on a Learning and Revisioning Network (LRN) technical assistance and research study designed to support community school initiatives in nine communities across Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi, funded by the NEA Foundation.  

Dr. Bradley serves as the co-principal investigator on two statewide Full-Service Community Schools (FSCS) grants administered by the University of Central Florida (UCF) and the United Way of Treasure Valley, Idaho. She also served as the implementation evaluation lead on the Restart SMART Initiative managed by Higher Ground in Tucson, Arizona.  

Dr. Bradley has contributed to the community schools’ field by developing theories related to key implementation components that support shared vision, collective leadership, and robust, meaningful evaluation for continuous improvement. Dr. Bradley also serves as a project lead for an IES-funded Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Midwest project focused on developing a sixth-grade math intervention and as a subject matter expert on improvement science and Networked Improvement Community projects across AIR.  

Dr. Bradley has almost two decades of experience in education research and project management and holds a Project Manager Professional (PMP) certification. Her areas of expertise within community schools include implementation evaluation, qualitative research methods, improvement science, development and support of Networked Improvement Communities, support and evaluation of research-practice partnerships, and teacher retention, preparation and support.