Strategic Data Project Convening 2025

Dr. Hella Bel Hadj Amor brings 20 years of experience as a program evaluator, technical assistance provider, and education researcher with a passion for helping partners make the most productive and careful use of data and evidence to improve their practice and promote equitable outcomes. Most recently, she has conducted this work in the areas of the educator pipeline, college and career readiness, career and technical education, out-of-school time programs, and leadership. She strives to implement culturally responsible and equitable evaluations and facilitates the collaborative construction of logic models to build a thorough, shared understanding of the work and guide program design, implementation, evaluation, and communications. Hella brings qualitative and quantitative evaluation and research findings to end-users; she guides them through and builds their capacity to use these data in equity-driven improvement cycles where they collaboratively make sense of and question the data, identify challenges and root causes, set goals, select evidence-based strategies, design plans, execute action steps, monitor progress using collaboratively identified metrics, implement course corrections in a timely manner, identify impacts, and build longer-term lessons learned that contribute to the broader field. She has deep expertise in the research-practice partnership model where practitioners, researchers, and technical assistance providers co-construct a coherent agenda in collaboration with and tailored to the needs of the recipients of the work. Hella brings a unique lens, curiosity, and understanding of a mix of cultures to her work as an English as a third language, Southwest Asian and North African/European cisgender female who has lived in North Africa, Western Europe, and the USA. She joins Verite Educational Services as Senior Grants and Research Officer via Education Northwest and the American Institutes for Research. Prior to that, Dr. Bel Hadj Amor was the director of Teacher Effectiveness Research and Evaluation at DC Public Schools, and she began her career as a research scientist at the Institute for Education and Social Policy at New York University where she earned her Master’s in Economics and her Ph.D. in Public Administration.