Matthew Vinson

Matthew Vinson is a senior researcher at AIR working on out of school time (OST) and community schools (CS) initiatives in the Youth, Family, and Community Development program. Vinson is the project lead for 21st Century Community Learning Center (21st CCLC) program evaluation efforts in New Jersey and Texas and provides analytic support for similar evaluations in South Carolina and Washington state. Vinson also supports evaluation efforts of Chicago Public Schools Community Schools Initiative, including calculation of key performance indicators and multi-level modeling. Vinson further supports technical development and analysis tasks associated with the annual Nevada school climate survey. Prior to these projects, Vinson led statewide 21st CCLC evaluations in Ohio and Rhode Island and worked on recommendations to the U.S. Department of Education for updates to the 21st CCLC Government Performance and Results Act measures. 

Vinson also worked with other AIR staff to design and launch an entirely new 21st CCLC data collection system. Additionally, Vinson was the project manager for the national 21st CCLC Profile and Performance Information Collection System (PPICS), overseeing an annual data collection that gathered information from more than 10,000 sites nationwide, and was the outcomes evaluation lead for the School’s Out New York City (SONYC) program. 

He has designed data-collection web pages for the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute and worked on the Reading First technical assistance team. He has worked with state-level staff on OST data quality and reporting and has conducted state-level trainings across the country. He has experience in reporting, grant writing, data-collection system design, evaluation, federal-level program monitoring, experimental design and execution, team leadership, and research methodology. Vinson also has worked as an intern in Washington, D.C., on a variety of national and international policy issues relating to religious freedom.