Sarah Heaton is the Managing Director of School District Policy at the National Council on Teacher Quality where she studies human capital policies affecting school teachers.  Prior to her work at NCTQ, Sarah worked for Baltimore City Public Schools in a variety of capacities, implementing new teacher compensation and evaluation policies along the way. Before that, she taught high school English at School #430 in west Baltimore. She has a BA in English and History from Oberlin College, holds a Maryland Advanced Professional Teaching Certificate from the Johns Hopkins University MAT program, and is a current doctoral student at Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College of Education. Her professional interests include school and school community desegregation efforts, teacher support and development, performance management, and assessment and evaluation.