Leadership Work

Program Leader

I currently lead three programs/initiatives (with three amazing co-chairs) – an Ed.M. program for emerging leaders in education, a program for senior leaders in urban school districts nationwide, and a collaborative focused on political leadership in the superintendency. You can learn more about these programs and mine the tremendous resources that both programs have to offer.

Education Programs

Co-Chair of the Public Education Leadership Project

The Public Education Leadership Project (PELP) aims to increase its intellectual contribution to the field through expanded partnerships among Harvard faculty, doctoral students and the field. With its core focus on strategic decision making in large urban school systems, PELP offers an extraordinary opportunity to develop new knowledge that extends Harvard’s intellectual contribution to the field across schools and disciplines, expands the connection to useful knowledge by its doctoral programs and students, and influences the work of the largest school systems in the country, with implications for public education as a whole.

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Co-Chair of the Education Leadership, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship Program

Whether you seek to manage a complex learning organization or team, launch an entrepreneurial venture, or drive an initiative that sparks new possibilities within an existing school, district, or network, the Education Leadership, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship (ELOE) Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education will help you become an effective, strategic, and innovative leader within the field. Our program prepares you with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to lead with impact in diverse roles, including preK–12, higher education, the nonprofit sector, government, and philanthropy. With a focus on change management, organizational leadership, and entrepreneurial principles, this program equips you to envision, enact, scale, and transform.

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Co-Chair of the Collaborative on Political Leadership in the Superintendency

In recent years, the job of the superintendent has become an increasingly political one. This has long been true in large urban districts. But today, it is also the case in mid-sized urban districts and smaller suburban and rural communities where demographics have changed swiftly and opinions about how to engage a larger swath of students in school is at the center of local debates. No matter the political landscape, it means the superintendent’s job is largely about keeping the organization’s focus on children while strategically navigating the interests of adults.
It is with this acknowledgement that we’ve formed the Collaborative on Political Leadership in the Superintendency (CPLS). This collaborative, which consists of seasoned superintendents, politics of education scholars, and the leaders of major organizations who train and support superintendents nation-wide, is focused on equipping superintendents with the political acumen to make positive change in a complex environment.

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