Lorelei Jackson is a 2025 Teach Plus National Teacher Policy Cabinet Senior Board Member and a Special Education Specialist at Brighton 27J School District. She focuses on providing services for students with disabilities and coaches other educators in best practices to support students’ access to content and curriculum. With over a decade of classroom teaching experience, Lorelei has held leadership positions as the Special Education Department Lead, CH-ISA Lead for the Multilingual Learner Instructional Services Advisory Team, and the Secondary Site Assessment Leader (SAL) for Elementary and Middle School READ Act, W-APT/ACCESS testing, as well as, Middle School Student Wellbeing. She has founded and advised two National Junior Honor Society chapters within Colorado.
She has also served as a Senior Policy Fellow for the state of Colorado. Lorelei began her teaching career in Connecticut as a Notre Dame AmeriCorps member teaching mathematics and English Language Arts and has taught various grades between 2nd and 9th grade.
Lorelei earned a BS in Applied Psychology from Champlain College, Vermont, an MSc in Developmental Psychology from the University of Lincoln, Lincolnshire UK, and an MEd in Special Education and teaching from Metropolitan State University of Denver, Colorado. She has also received a graduate certification in Inclusive Schools Leadership from Relay Graduate School of Education and is working on her Education Specialist degree accompanied by a Director of Special Education licensure.
