Lex Nappa

• Designed and facilitated research-school partnerships to improve educator relationships and enhance school relational climate.

• Supported the design and execution of applied research studies involving data analysis, reporting, and generating manuscripts for publication.

• Designed and implemented responsive solutions to practitioner-identified needs in the form of workshops, professional development, applied resources, and learning experiences.

• Collaborated cross functionally to manage and monitor design/production processes, agendas, workflow, and timelines on multiple competing projects.

• Managed a community participatory research project involving a brief SEL intervention to children and families across 3 primary care clinics nationwide.

• Facilitated mixed-methods data collection with children, adolescents, and parents, including clinical interviews.

• Supported project documentation by scheduling project meetings, developing meeting agendas, and tracking correspondence.

• Provided training, mentoring, coaching and on-going performance management to RAs.

• Assisted with IRB protocol applications and provided administrative support as needed.

• Co-authored “Navigating SEL from the Inside Out”, an in-depth compendium of 25 SEL programs available for grades PreK-8.

• Conducted dozens of principal and educator interviews about their experience implementing SEL in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Developed and maintained national recruitment database of over 23,000 school staff members, generated recruitment materials, and managed recruitment process.

• Contributed to qualitative and quantitative data collection, coding, analysis, and reporting.

• Created an engaging, high-quality social-emotional learning curriculum for Grades 5-9

around ethics-based educational game Quandary, used by thousands of educators .

• Prepared IRB applications and materials for a mixed-methods, nationwide curriculum evaluation study.

• Communicated project updates and needs regularly with funders, stakeholders, and community partners.

• Collected and analyzed pre- and post-intervention data from the nationwide evaluation study.

• Supervised a small team of undergraduate and graduate research assistants.