Dr. Jacob Williams is a senior advisor at Education Northwest where he facilitates school and system improvement initiatives in the Northwest region. He conducts research with students at-risk for learning difficulties, and provides technical assistance/professional development for policy and practice in academics and social-emotional learning. Dr. Williams has served as a manager/director for research/technical assistance projects at The Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk at the University of Texas at Austin. In this role he collaborated with a diverse group of federal, state, and district educational professionals, including staff at the Texas Juvenile Justice Department, to implement a legislatively mandated literacy and teacher improvement initiative. Additionally, he supported implementation of the Texas Education Agency’s federal Striving Readers grant and served as assistant director of the George W. Bush Institute’s Middle School Matters program. Jacob earned his Master of Education at Murray State University–Kentucky and his Ph.D. at the University of Texas.
