Emily Kalejs Qazilbash

Emily Kalejs Qazilbash, EdD, is a Professor of Practice of Education at Brown University and an affiliate faculty member at the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown. Emily conducts research on teacher retention, teacher career trajectories, teachers unions and labor-management collaboration. She also works with superintendents, their leadership teams, and school principals on designing and implementing policies and school cultures that serve to retain excellent teachers. In the past, Emily has worked with a variety of non-profits and government agencies on issues such as educator evaluation, labor-management collaboration, school reform efforts, and Peer Assistance and Review (PAR) programs. Before Brown, Emily served as the Chief Human Capital Officer in the Boston Public Schools (BPS) where she led recruitment, hiring and performance management initiatives that enabled BPS to have an effective teacher in every classroom and an effective leader in every school. 

Emily earned her master’s and doctoral degrees in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and holds a B.A. in Political and Social Thought from the University of Virginia, and started her career as a 2nd and 3rd grade teacher in Baltimore and then Boston.