Dr. Kylie Flynn

Kylie Flynn is a national expert in testing promising educational innovations across academic domains and identifying best practices to support the learning of students, including those with disabilities. She has an established record of partnering effectively with school districts and developers to execute educational research projects that inform instructional practices. Flynn leads or co-leads federally funded studies related to early intervention and prevention, early childhood education, social skills development, mathematics, and writing. She has also led large contracts with educational companies, such as Scholastic, Newsela, and Age of Learning. She is an invited instructor at the Institute of Education Sciences’ (IES) Cluster Randomized Trials’ Training Institute.

Before joining WestEd, Flynn worked at FSU’s Florida Center for Reading Research on several intervention studies funded by IES and the National Institutes of Health and taught reading courses to students in FSU’s special education teacher preparation program. Before her research career, Flynn was a special education teacher for 13 years in California and Florida. She received her doctorate in special education from FSU in 2012.