Stephani L. Wrabel (she/her) is a policy researcher at the RAND Corporation. She researches K-12 education and defense policies, programs, and practices intended to improve the lives of young persons, families, and servicemembers. Wrabel has particular expertise in standards-based accountability policy, student mobility, social emotional learning, Department of Defense youth programs, and military morale, welfare, and recreation programs. Her ongoing work includes a multi-year study of social and emotional learning partnerships in schools and out-of-school time programs as well as a multi-year investigation of a residential, quasi-military program for youth experiencing difficulty in traditional high schools.
She earned her Ph.D. in urban education policy from the University of Southern California. She also holds an M.Ed. from the University of Florida and a B.A. from Boston University.
Selected Publications
Wrabel, Stephani L., Susan Bush-Mecenas, and Ashley Woo, Seeking Balance in the Provision of Technical Assistance: Insights from the National Center to Improve Social and Emotional Learning and School Safety, RAND Corporation (RR-A1161-1), 2021
Wrabel, Stephani L., Laura S. Hamilton, Anamarie A. Whitaker, and Sean Grant, Investing in Evidence-Based Social and Emotional Learning: Companion Guide to Social and Emotional Learning Interventions Under the Every Student Succeeds Act: Evidence Review, RAND Corporation (RR-2739), 2018
Schwartz, Heather L., Laura S. Hamilton, Susannah Faxon-Mills, Celia J. Gomez, Alice Huguet, Lisa H. Jaycox, Jennifer T. Leschitz, Andrea Prado Tuma, Katie Tosh, Anamarie A. Whitaker, and Stephani L. Wrabel, Early Lessons from Schools and Out-of-School Time Programs Implementing Social and Emotional Learning, RAND Corporation (RR-A379-1), 2020
Meadows, Sarah O., Stephanie Brooks Holliday, Wing Yi Chan, Stephani L. Wrabel, Margaret Tankard, Dana Schultz, Christopher M. Busque, Felix Knutson, Leslie Adrienne Payne, and Laura L. Miller, Air Force Morale, Welfare, and Recreation Programs and Services: Contribution to Airman and Family Resilience and Readiness, RAND Corporation (RR-2670), 2019
Grant, Sean, Laura S. Hamilton, Stephani L. Wrabel, Celia J. Gomez, Anamarie A. Whitaker, Jennifer T. Leschitz, Fatih Unlu, Emilio R. Chavez-Herrerias, Garrett Baker, Mark Barrett, Mark A. Harris, and Alyssa Ramos, Social and Emotional Learning Interventions Under the Every Student Succeeds Act: Evidence Review, RAND Corporation (RR-2133), 2017
Wenger, Jennie W., Louay Constant, Linda Cottrell, Thomas E. Trail, Michael J. D. Vermeer, and Stephani L. Wrabel, National Guard Youth ChalleNGe: Program Progress in 2015–2016, RAND Corporation (RR-1848), 2017
Herman, Rebecca, Susan M. Gates, Aziza Arifkhanova, Mark Barrett, Andriy Bega, Emilio R. Chavez-Herrerias, Eugeniu Han, Mark A. Harris, Katya Migacheva, Rachel Ross, Jennifer T. Leschitz, and Stephani L. Wrabel, School Leadership Interventions Under the Every Student Succeeds Act: Evidence Review: Updated and Expanded, RAND Corporation (RR-1550-3), 2017