Dr. Janet S. Twyman

VP Instructional Development

A noted educator and researcher, Janet Twyman is the Vice President of Instructional Development at Headsprout, where she significantly contributed to the development of Headsprout&'s Sprout Learning™ technology and led the effort to build that technology into a highly effective beginning reading program. Dr. Twyman developed the research methods and systems that led to Headsprout's ground-breaking scientific formative evaluation model of program development — coordinating all elements of instructional design, scripting, graphic creation, animation, sound engineering, story development and writing, software engineering, and usability testing within the research model.

Formerly the Executive Director of the Fred S. Keller School, a model early childhood center, and an adjunct associate professor at Columbia University Teachers College, Dr. Twyman has been a long-time advocate and investigator of research-based instruction and systems design. She has conducted research and taught courses focusing on effective instruction, technology and education, teacher development, and systems approaches to effective education. She has published and presented widely on these and other topics of broader conceptual interest. Dr. Twyman earned her Ph.D. from Columbia University Teachers College, and is a certified elementary and special education teacher and principal/school administrator. She has authored several book chapters, and published descriptive and experimental studies on learning and education, and sits on the board of several schools and organizations in the public and private sector.