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Jennifer Dickson
Jennifer Dickson is an educator and expert with a passion for working with preK–5 educators to ensure all students learn at high levels. She is an advocate for early childhood education and early intervention for learners with almost 30 years of experience in public school education.
Jennifer Dickson
Jennifer Dickson is an educator and expert with a passion for working with preK–5 educators to ensure all students learn at high levels. She is also an advocate for early childhood education and early intervention for learners. With almost 30 years of experience in public school education as a teacher, principal, and central office administrator, she loves to work with teams all over the country to implement and improve professional learning community (PLC) practices. She most recently served as director of early childhood in Duncanville, Texas. Currently, in addition to traveling all over the country coaching principals and teachers, she is an adjunct professor at Newman University, where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses.
Jennifer’s educational career has been spent mostly in the Title 1 setting, serving vulnerable students both as an early childhood and elementary administrator, as well as an elementary classroom teacher. She specializes in building principal and teacher capacity on the importance of collaborative teams in the elementary and early childhood setting to ensure not just academic growth for all learners, but also social and emotional development as well. She has a passion for coaching principals and guiding leadership teams to make data-driven decisions to ensure academic growth for every student.
Under Jennifer’s leadership as principal of Pierce Early Childhood School in Irving ISD, she led the school to earn the Model PLC at Work® designation in 2021. Pierce ECS was one of the first early childhood schools in the nation—and the first early childhood school in the state of Texas—to earn the Model PLC at Work school designation.
She completed her undergraduate studies at Oklahoma Baptist University and received her master’s degree in educational administration from the University of North Texas. She holds Texas Principal, Elementary Self-Contained 1–8, and English as a Second Language certifications.
PLC at Work®
PLC at Work® experts have proven success in leading the PLC at Work process in a school or district. Work with them to implement a focus on learning, build a collaborative culture, and create a results orientation that leads to sustained, substantive school improvement.
Presentations by Jennifer Dickson
- PLC: Living in the Process
- The 15-Day Challenge
- Collaborative Teams in Early Childhood
- The Power of Collaborative Teams: A PLC Overview
- Team Collaboration and CFA Next Steps
- Guiding Coalitions: Honest Discussions and Current Realities
- Fine Motor Skills in preK: Building Small Muscles for Big Growth
