EdLab Strategies Founder Heidi Guarino is an experienced education policymaker, communicator and storyteller. Her work is deeply informed by research, best practice, and experience viewing education from all angles: as a senior policy consultant at Education First, as a state-level policymaker and communicator at the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, as a local, regional and statewide education reporter at the Associated Press, and - most importantly - as a mother to her two children in Salem, Massachusetts. 

Heidi has experience in issues ranging from instructional strategies to educator leadership, from high quality instructional materials to social and emotional learning, and almost everything in between. She has worked with educators and policy makers at all levels, including state, school and district leaders, classroom teachers, policymakers, non-profit organizations, advocates, parents, and funders.