Julia Phelan

Julia Phelan is the co-founder of To Eleven an innovative education consultancy firm specialized in using evidence-based principles and approaches to develop, evaluate, and improve learning experiences. At To Eleven she works on collaborative projects both to create new research-based learning experiences and to integrate new technologies and approaches into existing experiences (both in-person and online). 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. She has extensive experience in multiple areas including learning engineering, research design, formative assessment and evaluation, instructional design, measurement, and evaluating efficacy of adaptive learning technologies.

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 best 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.