Alex Figueras-Daniel

Alexandra Figueras-Daniel is the Director of Research at Teaching Strategies-- the leading provider of early childhood solutions for programs serving children from birth through third grade. She previously served as Assistant Research Professor at the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) at Rutgers University where she oversaw the collection of data on various large-scale early childhood education research studies, assisted teachers and districts to implement more well-aligned P-3 systems in New Jersey, and served as a NIEER spokesperson in the organization's outreach to the Hispanic media. Dr. Figueras-Daniel began her career as a preschool teacher in New Jersey’s Abbott program in a dual immersion school. She holds a PhD in Education Policy from the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers University.