Julia Phelan

Julia Phelan is the co-founder of To Eleven an innovative education consultancy firm working to create and improve learning experiences and to integrate new technologies and approaches into existing ones (both in-person and online). She partners with individuals and organizations to design and implement rich learning experiences grounded in science, human behavior, and evidence-based principles to move all learners forward. To Eleven collaborates with organizations in multiple contexts including: post-secondary, career-development, adult education, social justice, parent education, philanthropy, academic publishing, ed tech, corporate training, and government agencies. Julia has extensive experience in multiple areas including learning engineering, inclusive teaching practices, research design, formative assessment and evaluation, instructional design, measurement, and evaluating efficacy of adaptive learning technologies. She is an advisor for the National Laboratory for Education Transformation.

She has a Ph.D in Education from UCLA and prior to co-founding To Eleven, Julia spent over twenty years as a research and learning scientist at UCLA’s National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards and Student Testing (CRESST). She is the author of many peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and regularly presents at conferences. Julia frequently speaks, writes, and conducts training workshops on how to implement learning science-based strategies and techniques connected to how people learn.

She is originally from England and now lives in southern California with her evolutionary biologist husband and three sons.