ERS Team

Natalie Elliott

In their role as an Associate, Natalie directly supports school and district leaders to design empowering student and teacher experiences through accessible data analysis and strategic recommendations. Natalie also works to expand ERS’ impact on the education field through contributing to organizational research, tool development, and content distribution strategies. 

Recently, Natalie provided direct support to Baltimore City Public Schools and the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE).  With Baltimore leaders, she developed an analytic study to inform how district leaders can support school leaders with strategic budgeting in the wake of state-level funding changes. With DESE, Natalie led work in designing accessible and curated presentations of Massachusetts public data. These data curations were designed to empower leaders at 7 high schools to support the increasing number of EL and newcomer students at their schools through making strategic changes to school design and programing. 

Natalie also contributed to ERS’ Field Building. In the summer of 2023, Natalie supported the development of ERS’ ESSER Collaborative which comprised of ~30 K-12 education service providers and field leading organizations. As the nation neared the end of ESSER funding, these organizations came together to share learnings and hone their services and expertise to best serve the anticipated needs of school district leaders. Through this working group, she helped publish a guide to help state leaders target their support to their districts who would face difficult financial transitions post ESSER. Natalie has also led efforts to update a variety of ERS’ research and tools with emerging best practices in content and accessibility and has implemented strategies to improve the reach of these resources to education leaders across the country.  

Within ERS, Natalie serves as a member of our organization’s Diversity, Belonging, Inclusion, and Equity team and has developed several internal professional learning efforts to improve our consulting practice and analytic capabilities.   Natalie first entered the world of education through co-founding a remote afterschool program in response to the impact of COVID-19 on student experience. At Vanderbilt University, Natalie studied Science Communication and Earth Science where they became interested in data, design, and communications, working as an undergraduate researcher designing data dashboards for clinicians and using R to study trends in paleobiology. Outside of the office, Natalie is always searching for new music to grow her playlist collection, experimenting with new baking recipes to perfectly fit a celebration, and illustrating the moments she’s inspired by in her day-to-day life.

Previous Experience

Undergraduate researcher

Earth & Environmental Science Department;

Undergraduate researcher

Cancer Patient Safety Learning Laboratory;

Co-founder & Instructor

Tin Can Learners

Education

B.A., Communication of Science & Technology, Earth & Environmental Science

Vanderbilt University