Dr. Beth Holland is Managing Director of Research & Policy at FullScale. Since joining in 2020, she has expanded the organization’s initiatives, establishing research and policy partnerships with state leaders, systems, and other organizations to build and translate evidence to practice and policy. She is a nationally recognized expert and thought-leader in the edtech and digital equity space, serving on the Technical Working Group to author the 2024 National Educational Technology Plan (NETP).

Prior to joining FullScale, she completed a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Rhode Island, where she worked on a project funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s Ready to Learn Initiative, and served as the Digital Equity and Rural Project Director at the Consortium of School Networking (CoSN). Beth also worked for six years as an instructor with EdTechTeacher, where she designed and implemented professional development workshops and blended learning courses with K-12 educators and leaders across the country and abroad. In addition, she served as the Director of Academic Technology at St. Michael’s Country Day School in Newport, RI. From these experiences, she brings both a rigorous academic background and classroom experience to the team’s research and policy efforts.

Beth is also a prolific author and public speaker. She has previously published regular columns for Getting Smart and EdWeek and has had her work featured on Edutopia, MindShift, and EdSurge, as well as in scholarly journals. She holds an Ed.D. in Entrepreneurial Leadership in Education from Johns Hopkins University, an Ed.M. in Technology, Innovation, and Education from Harvard University, as well as a B.S. in Communications from Northwestern University.