Todd Grindal

Todd Grindal, Ed.D. is associate director of the SRI Center for Learning and Development where he oversees a large portfolio of education-focused research and technical assistance projects. His own work examines how policies and programs shape the development of young children and children with disabilities. Grindal has led multiple federally funded research projects including work for the Institute for Education Sciences, Administration for Children and Families, and the Department of Education. He is currently the principal investigator of a Child Care Policy Research Partnership project examining how early childhood educators in Arkansas child care programs interpret and implement state policies designed to reduce the use of suspension and expulsion. He is also the co-principal investigator of Reading Together, a Transformative Research in the Education Sciences grant from the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education to develop and test the impact of a scalable, artificial intelligence-enabled, personalized early literacy intervention. 

Grindal has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications, regularly presents his work at scholarly conferences, and has been an invited speaker at the United Nations. His work has received awards from the American Educational Research Association and the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness. Grindal is a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education where he helps to prepare future educators to support students with disabilities in schools. Before beginning his doctoral studies, Grindal worked for six years as an elementary and preschool teacher and school administrator.