Ann Bradley

AFT Innovation Fund

Ann Bradley is the director of the AFT Innovation Fund, an initiative of the American Federation of Teachers designed to put teachers at the forefront of education reform.

In this interview with Colorín Colorado, Ann discusses a number of the Innovation Fund's Common Core projects, shares why the Innovation Fund was particularly interested in projects serving ELLs, and shares some of the lessons she's learned from her work at the AFT.

Biography


Ann Bradley is the director of the AFT Innovation Fund. She joined the American Federation of Teachers in March 2010 after more than 20 years at Education Week, where she was a reporter and editor. Before joining American education's newspaper of record, she was a reporter and copy editor at The Miami Herald and a copy editor at the Sun-Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale. She is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.