Kristie Kauerz

Kristie Kauerz, Ed.D. is executive director of the National P-3 Center and associate clinical professor at University of Colorado Denver’s School of Education & Human Development. Kristie specializes in education reform efforts that address the continuum of learning from birth through 3rd grade, integrating birth-to-five system building and K-12 reforms. Kristie’s expertise is based in her work with more than 45 states and dozens of school districts around the country. Kristie’s experience includes work at the state level as an early childhood and P-3 policy advisor to two Colorado governors; at the national level as program director for early learning at Education Commission of the States; and in academia as director of a PreK-3rd Grade Initiative at Harvard Graduate School of Education.