Nazanin Zargarpour, Ph.D., Executive Director

Nazanin Zargarpour, Ph.D. serves as Executive Director of Claremont Graduate University's Institute at Indian Hill, an educational agency committed to integrating responsible scholarship and best practices in serving the continuous improvement of schools and districts, through research, coaching, and evaluation. Dr. Zargarpour's work is informed by 13 years of experience in support of education reform and literacy, as a District Administrator and Consultant in schools and districts throughout the United States and countries abroad.
 
As administrator, external partner, and evaluator to schools and districts, Dr. Zargarpour has supported the design and implementation of systemic reform, resulting in continuous improvement of school processes and student achievement outcomes. She holds expertise in developing systems, protocols, and tools for data use and collaborative inquiry in schools and districts. Her work encompasses coaching and training programs for administrators in data-driven planning, monitoring, and decision-making at the school level, as well as, training and coaching for teachers in data-driven teaching and learning.

Dr. Zargarpour earned a Masters degree in Public Policy from the University of Southern California, with specialty in International Development Education, and a Doctorate of Philosophy from Claremont Graduate University in Education Policy and Reform. Her doctoral research identified practices that promote growth in traditionally low-performing schools with high-poverty, high-minority, and high-English-learner populations. Her work, entitled A Collective Inquiry Response to High-Stakes Accountability, has won state and national awards (from the California Educational Research Association (CERA) and the American Educational Research Association (AERA) respectively) and has been accepted for publication as a book.