Professional Biography
Liza Herzog teaches the Evaluation for Innovation course in the Education Entrepreneurship Master’s Program. Dr. Herzog currently serves as the Director of Evaluation and Impact at the Barnes Foundation. She was formerly Director of Academic Research and Assessment at the Charles D. Close School of Entrepreneurship at Drexel University and Director of the Professional Institute for Educators (PIE) and M.Ed. Programs at the University of the Arts, where she oversaw curriculum design and development, program operations and management, faculty recruitment, professional learning, and student advising for matriculated and non-matriculated graduate students, all of whom are K–12 classroom teachers.
Before joining UArts in November 2015, Dr. Herzog was the VP of Research and Evaluation at the Philadelphia Education Fund, a local education agency working to improve public education by strengthening the teacher pipeline and postsecondary pathways. At the Ed Fund, she co-directed research on early warning systems, school reform, professional learning networks, math course-taking, school-based teaming and data use, and dropout prevention. Dr. Herzog led a regional cross-sector, interdisciplinary advisory team of researchers, practitioners, and providers around the use of education, health and social welfare data from the Philadelphia Educational Longitudinal Study (PELS), which followed more than 2,000 8th graders in Philadelphia public schools through to three years past on-time graduation. She worked across Ed Fund divisions Teaching Learning and Innovation and Postsecondary Opportunity, and with school- and District-wide programs Diplomas Now, Early Warning Systems, Philadelphia Postsecondary Success Program, College Access Program, Math+Science Coalition and Philadelphia Teacher Residency--to track outcomes, match needs to supports, and design frameworks for program planning and implementation.
Before joining the Ed Fund, Dr. Herzog worked at Penn GSE, where she conducted mixed-methods research in higher education. Prior to her work in education, she was a practicing attorney in Philadelphia and in Washington, D.C.
