Patrick M.盾牌是LPI的成员孩提时代学习团队，是其中一个共同作者高质量的早期学习之路：州的课程。盾牌还在教育家质量和共同撰写的LPI报告中工作，解决加州的新兴教师短缺。
盾牌带来LPI超过25年的管理大型社会科学研究项目的经验。Prior to joining LPI, he was the Executive Director of SRI Education, where he also served as Research Director for Teaching and California’s Future, a 15-year initiative to track the quality of the teacher workforce that contributed to legislation to ensure high-quality teaching for all of California’s students. Shields has also overseen many NSF- and foundation-supported studies of STEM opportunities for disadvantaged children, including serving as the co-principal investigator of the Science Activation Lab, a national research and design effort to dramatically strengthen learning.
盾牌收到了博士学位。和一个M.A.在斯坦福大学的教育政策中，来自哥伦比亚大学的教育管理和B.A.在阿默斯特学院的浪漫语言中。他最近通过教师学习连续性加强科学教育国家科学教育委员会。
有关Patrick M. Shields的工作的更多信息，请参阅下面的列表。
