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Melody Musgrove, Ph.D., Director, Office of Special Education Programs, U.S. Department of Education

Sarah Drinkwater, Assistant Superintendent, Ph.D., Oregon Department of Education

Sarah Drinkwater, Ph.D., obtained her doctorate in special education, with an emphasis in early childhood, in 1988 from the University of Oregon. She worked as a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Washington in early childhood special education personnel preparation, and also taught at the University of Nevada, Reno, in the College of Education. 

Molly Branson Thayer, Ed.D. is the Program Director of Leadership and Professional Education at the National P-3 Center at the University of Washington’s College of Education. In this role, Dr. Branson Thayer leads the Washington P-3 Executive Leadership Institute, which builds and supports administrators—in both early learning and elementary education—who are well equipped to ensure Washington’s young children have a high quality continuum of learning that begins at birth and extends through elementary school regardless of race, class, culture, or zip code. Dr.