SRN LEADS/Stanford University: School Redesign Network — Leadership, Equity & Accountability in Districts & Schools

biographies

Linda Darling-Hammond

Linda Darling-Hammond is Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at Stanford University where she has launched the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education and the School Redesign Network and served as faculty sponsor for the Stanford Teacher Education Program. She is a former president of the American Educational Research Association and member of the National Academy of Education. Her research, teaching, and policy work focus on issues of school restructuring, teacher quality and educational equity. From 1994-2001, she served as executive director of the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future, a blue-ribbon panel whose 1996 report, What Matters Most: Teaching for America's Future, led to sweeping policy changes affecting teaching and teacher education. In 2006, this report was named one of the most influential affecting U.S. education and Darling-Hammond was named one of the nation's ten most influential people affecting educational policy over the last decade. She recently served as the leader of President Barack Obama's education policy transition team.

Among Darling-Hammond's more than 300 publications are Preparing Teachers for a Changing World: What Teachers Should Learn and Be Able to Do (with John Bransford, for the National Academy of Education, winner of the Pomeroy Award from AACTE), Powerful Teacher Education: Lessons from Exemplary Programs (Jossey-Bass: 2006); Teaching as the Learning Profession (Jossey-Bass: 1999) (co-edited with Gary Sykes), which received the National Staff Development Council's Outstanding Book Award for 2000; and The Right to Learn, recipient of the American Educational Research Association's Outstanding Book Award for 1998.

For Darling-Hammond's official photo and full biography, please visit her web site.

 

Carol Campbell

Carol Campbell oversees the work of SCOPE and its affiliated programs, including the School Redesign Network. She worked previously at the Ministry of Education in Ontario, Canada, where, in her most recent position, she served as Ontario’s first Chief Research Officer and simultaneously served as Founding Director of the Education Research & Evaluation Strategy Branch. Prior to moving to Ontario, Carol was a member of the faculty at the Institute of Education, University of London, teaching in the masters and doctoral programs in education policy, leadership, management, and research. She also worked as Policy and Strategy Advisor in the Directorate of the Institute and as an advisor on school reform to the English government’s Department for Education and Skills and to the Commissioner for London Schools. Carol completed her doctorate at the University of Strathclyde and held teaching and research posts at Strathclyde and Glasgow Universities. Biography.

 

Alethea Andree

Alethea Andree is a research assistant for SRN LEADS. Prior to joining SRN LEADS she was an administrative assistant for the Performance Assessment for California Teachers (PACT) program.

 

Linda Carstens

Linda Carstens is Director of Professional Learning, a position she was appointed to after serving for a year as LEADS Network Director. Previously she was Senior Research Associate at WestEd. She has 30 years of district-level administrator experience in California, primarily in the areas of standards, assessment, curriculum and instruction as part of systemic reform, and in services for English Language Learners. Carstens served as a Visiting Educator in the Accountability Branch of the California Department of Education.  In four years at WestEd, she worked with several California districts in the area of systemic reform and second language, and for two years, co-provided the state's Title III technical assistance obligation to districts.  Carstens serves as a peer reviewer for state assessment and accountability systems for the USED, and recently authored a chapter on the impact of NCLB on ELL students for the Center on Education Policy.  She earned a Ph.D. in multicultural education from Claremont Graduate University in 1993.

 

Diane Friedlaender

Diane Friedlaender is Research Coordinator for SRN LEADS. In this role, she oversees the SRN LEADS research efforts and is currently conducting a study in collaboration with the Justice Matters Institute entitled High Schools for Equity:policy supports for student learning in low-income communities of color. Friedlaender also led SRN's project, Windows on Conversions: A multi-media exploration of redesign at four comprehensive high schools. Prior to joining SRN, she taught courses on the sociological and multi-cultural foundations in education and conducted anti-racism trainings for teachers. She has also conducted research on school reform models, youth intergroup relations and racial identity development, youth development, and evaluated arts education and after-school programs and foundations' grant-making strategies. She earned her B.A. from UC San Diego and Ph.D. in Education Policy from UCLA.

 

Milica Gurney

Milica Gurney is Administrative Director for SRN LEADS. In this role she oversees business operations and event management for the department. She has 20 years of experience in administrative and marketing operations.

 

Grace Hoagland

Grace M. Hoagland completed her graduate education at Oxford, Harvard and Indiana University, where her doctoral thesis was a study of entrepreneurial leadership in public schools.  Her work in education has centered on school reform, including service as executive director of regional reform initiatives in Indiana, St. Louis and the Bay Area.  She is a recent department chair in the Department of Educational Leadership, College of Education and Allied Studies at Cal State University East Bay.  She currently serves on the boards of Partners for School Innovation, the Center for Ecoliteracy, and the Stanford School of Education Advisory Board, served on the Stanford Alumni Board, and last year chaired the Stanford Associates Board of Governors.

 

Ann Lieberman

Dr. Ann Lieberman is a Senior Scholar at the School Redesign Network at Stanford University. Previously she was a Senior Scholar at The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and is Professor Emeritus of Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Lieberman is widely known for her work in the areas of teacher leadership and development, collaborative research, networks and school-university partnerships, and the problems and prospects for understanding educational change. Among her books are, Inside the National Writing Project: Connecting Network Learning and Classroom Teaching (with Diane Wood), Teachers: Transforming Their World and Their Work, and Teachers in Professional Learning Communities: Improving Teaching and Learning (with Lynne Miller). Lieberman has served on numerous national and international advisory boards, including those of the United Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association. She is also a past president of the American Educational Research Association As a researcher she is currently working on deepening the field's understanding of different structures that support school reform including networks, partnerships and coalitions. Lieberman received her BA and Ed.D at UCLA and her MA at California State University at Northridge, where she also received an honorary degree.

Barbara McKenna

Barbara McKenna is Communications Director for SRN LEADS. Previously she directed communications for the national Center for Research on Education, Diversity & Excellence (CREDE). She also worked as a public information officer at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Previously, she worked as a reporter for numerous papers including the Santa Cruz Sentinel and the Washington Post. She is also a web and graphic designer.

Erik Rice

Erik Rice is a Senior Associate at SRN LEADS, serving as lead for our
work with the California Multiple Pathways Initiative. Previously, Erik
helped open LIFE Academy of Health and Bioscience, a successful small high school in East Oakland. Over the last eight years at LIFE Academy, he served as Humanities teacher, Assistant Principal, and for the most recent three years, as Principal. Erik earned his B.A. in African American and African Studies from the University of Michigan and his Masters in Educational Leadership from Mills College in Oakland, California. He holds both a Teaching and Administrative Credential. Erik's educational passions include small school design, leadership development, adult collaboration, project-based learning, multiple career pathway development, performance-based assessment, habits of mind, personalization, and transformational educational experiences both inside and outside the school walls.

 

Elle Rustique-Forrester

Elle Rustique-Forrester is an associate director at SRN LEADS and previously directed the New Performance Assessment Collaborative, a consortium of small and redesigned high schools committed to creating rigorous, performance-based assessments for graduation and demonstrating college and workplace readiness. Rustique-Forrester earned an MA in educational policy from Teachers College, Columbia University and a PhD from the University of London's Institute of Education where she studied the effects of England's accountability system on teachers and schools' responses to low-performing students. A former teacher of Central Park East Secondary School in East Harlem, she is the author of Working with Disaffected Students: Why Students Lose Interest in School and What We Can Do About It (2002) and Multiple Measures Approaches to High School Graduation (2005), co-authored with Linda Darling-Hammond and Raymond Pecheone. Rustique-Forrester's interests lie with school redesign, educational policy, accountability and assessment systems, and teachers' professional development and learning.

 

Kendyll Stansbury

Kendyll Stansbury has worked in student and teacher assessment for 15 years. She currently oversees the development and revision of a pre-service teaching performance assessment and rubrics for the Performance Assessment for California Teachers (PACT) consortium of 31 teacher preparation programs.

 

Terrance Turner

Terrance Turner is an administrative associate for SRN LEADS and the Stanford Educational Leadership Institute. Before coming to SRN LEADS he worked as both a grant writer and research assistant.

 

Darling-Hammond named in top 10 most influential

In January, 2007, SRN LEADS Co-executive Director Linda Darling-Hammond was named as one of the 10 most influential people in the field of education over the last decade. The ranking came from a study conducted by the Editorial Projects in Education Research Center, a program of Education Week. Darling-Hammond holds the number 10 spot (shared with U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings) and is the only full-time academic listed. Read more.