Jennifer Bransom directs Program Accountability for Big Thought (Dallas, TX), a position she has held since 2001. She oversees major research and evaluation projects, and forges partnerships locally and nationally to develop educational resources for practitioners. Examples include Creating Quality, and the print and web versions of Arts in Afterschool, an Instructor's Guide to Afterschool Training Toolkit.
She has co-authored several publications with Dr. Dennie Palmer Wolf about the power of community members to evaluate and improve standards of quality based on commonly valued outcomes: More Than Measuring, “We Are Each Other’s Business”: The Place of Partnership in Smart Education Systems (chapter in City Schools), and 360 Degrees of Literacy. Jennifer also speaks and writes about evaluation as a learning enterprise, and creative capital. This semester she is collaborating with Dr. Richard Scotch to offer Creativity Across the Disciplines at the University of Texas at Dallas.