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James P. Spillane
Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Professor in Learning and Organizational Change Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research Professor, Human Development and Social Policy Professor, Learning Sciences Annenberg Hall Room 208 2120 Campus Drive Evanston, IL 60208-0001 Phone: (847) 467-5577 |
Biography
James Spillane's work explores the policy implementation process at the state, school district, school and classroom levels, focusing on intergovernmental relations and policy-practice relations. While building on the policy implementation research tradition, Spillane has worked to develop a cognitive perspective on the implementation process, exploring the substantive ideas about reforming instruction that local policy-makers, both administrators and teachers, come to understand from state and national reforms. Spillane is also interested in organizational leadership and change and is currently undertaking an empirical investigation of the practice of leadership in urban elementary schools that are working to improve mathematics, science and literacy instruction. In this work, Spillane conceptualizes organizational leadership as a distributed practice involving formal and informal leaders, followers and a variety of organizational tools and artifacts. He is the associate editor of Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis.Curriculum Vitae
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Awards/Honors
2006 - National Academy of Sciences, Board on Science Education
2006 - Institute for Education Sciences, Education Systems and Broad Reform Review Panel
2006 - Outstanding Professor Award, SESP
2006 - Appointed the Spencer T. & Ann W. Olin Professor in Learning and Organizational Change
2006 - Reviewed for the Spencer Foundation
2005 - Spencer T. & Ann W. Olin Professor in Learning and Organizational Change
2005 - The Spencer Foundation
Research/Scholarship
Education
Selected Publications
Year Degree Institution 1993 PhD, Curriculum, Teaching and Education Policy Michigan State University 1984 BA, Education and Geography St. Patrick's College, National University of Ireland
Spillane, J.; White, K.; Stephan, J. (2009). School Principal Expertise: Putting Expert-Aspiring Principal Differences in Problem Solving Processes to the Test. Leadership and Policy in Schools.Selected Presentations
Spillane, J.P. (2009). Engaging Practice: Leading and Managing School Improvement from a Distributed Perspective in A. Hargreaves and M. Fullan (eds.), Change Wars.
Spillane, J.P., Camburn, E. (2009). Taking a distributed perspective: epistemological and methodological tradeoffs in operationalizing the leader-plus aspect in Harris, A., Distributed Leadership: Different Perspective.
Spillane, J.P. (2008). Policy, Politics, and the National Mathematics Panel Report: Topology, Functions, and Limits. Educational Researcher, 37(9): 638-344.
Brenninkmeyer, L.D. & Spillane, J.P. (2008). Problem-solving processes of expert and typical school principals: a quantitative look. School Leadership & Management, 28(5): 435-468.
Harris, A. & Spillane, J. (2008). Distributed Leadership Through the Looking Glass. Management in Education, 22 (1): 31-34.
Hayton, P. & Spillane, J. (2008). Professional Community or Communities? School Subject Matter and Elementary School Teachers' Work Environments in Macbeth, J. & Chen, Y.C., Leadership for Learning: International Perpsectives: 59-71.
Spillane, J., Camburn E., & Pareja, A. (2008). School Principals at Work: A Distributed Perspective in Leithwood, K., Mascall, B., & Strauss, T. (eds), Distributed Leadership According to the Evidence.
Spillane, J. Camburn, E. & Pareja, A. (2007). Taking a Distributed Perspective to the School Principal’s Work Day. Leadership and Policy in Schools.
Spillane, J. & Diamond, J. (eds.) (2007). Distributed Leadership in Practice. Teachers College Press.
Spillane, J. & Miele, D. (2007). Evidence in Practice: A Framing of the Terrain. National Society for the Study of Education (NSSE) Yearbook.
Spillane, J. & Diamond, J. (2007). Distributed Leadership in Practice. New York: Teachers College Press.
Spillane, J. Camburn, E. & Pareja, A. (2007). Taking a Distributed Perspective to the School Principal’s Work Day. Leadership and Policy in Schools.
Coldren, A. & Spillane, J. (2007). Making Connections to Teaching Practice.: The Role of Boundary Practices in Instructional Leadership. Educational Policy.
Resnick, L.B. and Spillane, J. P. (2007). From Individual Learning to Organizational Designs for Learning in L.Verschaffel, F. Dochy, M. Boekaerts, & S. Vosniadou, Instructional psychology: Past, present and future trends. Sixteen essays in honor of Erik De Corte (Advances in Learning and Instruction Series).
Spillane, J (2006). Distributed Leadership. Jossey-Bass.
Spillane, J. & Burch, P (2006). The Institutional Environment and Instructional Practice: Changing Patterns of Guidance and Control in Public Schools in H. Meir & B. Rowan (eds.), The New Institutionalism in Education.
Spillane, J. Reiser, B. & Gomez, L (2006). Policy Implementation and Cognition: The Role of Human, Social, & Distributed Cognition in Framing Policy Implementation in M. Honig (ed.), New Directions in Educational Policy Implementation: Confronting Complexity.
Coldren, A. & Spillane, J (2006). Making Connections to Teaching Practice: The Role of Boundary Practices in Instructional Leadership. Educational Policy.
Spillane, J (2005). Primary School Leadership Practice: How the Subject Matters. School Leadership & Management: 383-397.
Spillane, J. & Orlina, E (2005). Investigating Leadership Practice: Exploring the Entailments of Taking a Distributed Perspective. Leadership and Policy in Schools: 157-176.
Diamond, J. & Spillane, J (2005). High Stakes Accountability in Urban Elementary Schools: Challenging or Reproducing Inequality? . Teachers College Record.
Loder, T. & Spillane, J (2005). Is a Principal Still a Teacher?: Women Administrators’ Accounts of Role Conflict in their Transition to the Principalship. School Leadership & Management: 263-279.
Spillane, J. Sherer, J., & Coldren, A (2005). Distributed Leadership: Leadership Practice and the Situation in W. Hoy & C. Miskil (eds.), Educational Leadership and Reform: 149 – 167.
Stein, M. & Spillane, J. (2005). What Can Researchers on Educational Leadership Learn from Research on Teaching: Building a Bridge in W. Firestone & & C. Reihl (eds), A New Agenda for Research in Educational Leadership: 28 – 45.
Spillane, J. (2004). Standards Deviations: How Local Schools Misunderstand Policy . Harvard University Press.
Spillane, J. (2000). Cognition and policy implementation: District policy-makers and the reform of mathematics education. Cognition and Instruction, spring.
Spillane, J. (2000). Science standards: What district policy-makers make of the hoopla. Journal of Research on Science Teaching, spring.
Spillane, J. (2000). Constructing an ambitious pedagogy in fifth grade: The mathematics and literacy divide. Elementary School Journal, spring.
Spillane, J. (1999). State and local government relations in the era of standards-based reform: Standards, state policy instruments and local instructional policy-making. Educational Policy, 13(4).
Spillane, J. (November, 2008). The Practice of Leading and Managing: Taking a Distributed Perspective. University of Pennsylvania , School of Education. Philadelphia, PA.Projects
Spillane, J. (October, 2008). Leading and Managing Educational Change: Engaging the Challenge in Practice. Keynote address, National Council for Curriculum & Assessment (of Ireland), 25th Anniversary Conference
. Monaghan, Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Spillane, J. (October, 2008). Leading and Managing Our Schools: Taking a Distributed Perspective. University College Cork, National University of Ireland. Cork, Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Spillane, J. (October, 2008). Engaging Practice: School Leadership & Management From a Distributed Perspective. Solution Tree International Summit on School Leadership. Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Spillane, J.P., Hunt, B. & Healy, K. (September, 2008). Managing and Leading Elementary Schools: Attending to the Formal and Informal Organization. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the European Educational Research Association. Gottenburg, Sweden.
Spillane. J. (September, 2008). Classroom Instruction, School Administrative Practice, and Government Policy: Taking a Distributed Perspective. Institute of Education, University of London, England. London, Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Spillane, J.P. et al. (March, 2008). Using Qualitative Methodologies and Mixed-Method Analysis Techniques to Study Change in Principal Expertise: The Promises and the Problems. Paper presented at AERA annual conference. New York, NY.
Spillane, J. & Hunt, B. (March, 2008). School Principals’ Work Practice: Days of Their Lives. Paper presented at American Educational Research Association Conference. New York, NY.
Goldring, E. B., Camburn, E., Huff, J. T., & Spillane, J. P. (2008). Assessing Mediating Relationships in Randomized Experiments with School Principals. Paper presented at the annual convention of the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness. Crystal City, VA.
Goldring, E. B., Huff, J. T., Stitziel Paraja, A., & Spillane, J. P. (2008). Measuring Principals’ Content Knowledge of Learning-Centered Leadership. Paper presented at the annual convention of the American Educational Research Association. New York, NY.
Spillane, J. (2007). The Co-Performance of Leadership Work in K-12 Schools: Examining Patterns of Responsibility for Leadership Routine. Chicago.
Spillane, J. (2007). Alternative Perspectives on Distributed Leadership. Chicago.
Spillane, J. (2007). Using Mixed Methods in Randomized Trials on Principal Development: Epistemological and Methodological Considerations. Chicago.
Spillane, J. (2007). The Practice of Leading and Managing: Taking a Distributed Perspective.
Spillane, J. (2007). Organizational Routines and School-Level Efforts to Establish Tight Coupling: Changing Policy, Changing Work Practice.
Spillane, J., Camburn, E., & Pareja, A. (November, 2006). Taking a Distributed Perspective in Measuring School Leadership and Management. UCEA Annual Meeting. San Antonio, TX.
Spillane, J. (October, 2006). The Practice of School Leadership and Management. Opening address, British Educational Leadership, Management, and Administration Society, Annual Meeting. Birmingham, Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Spillane, J. (September, 2006). Taking A Distributed Perspective to School Leadership and Management. European Educational Research Association. Geneva, Switzerland.
Resnick, R. & Spillane, J. (September, 2006). From Individual Learning to Organizational Designs for Learning. . University of Leuven. Leuven, Belgium.
Spillane, J. (August, 2006). Distributed Leadership. Chicago Public Schools . Chicago, IL.
Spillane, J. (July, 2006). Distributed Leadership. Cahn Fellows Program, Teachers’ College, Columbia University. New York City, NY.
Spillane, J. (June, 2006). Beyond the Classroom: Getting to Organizations and Systems Through An Analysis of Practice. . Opening Address, International Conference of the Learning Sciences, Indiana Univeristy . Bloomington, IN.
Spillane, J. (June, 2006). Distributed Leadership. Center on Distributed Leadership, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA.
Camburn, E., Spillane, J., Sebastian, J. (April, 2006). Measuring Principal Practice. Paper presented at the Annual American Education Research Association conference. San Francisco, CA.
Goldring, E. B., Spillane, J. P., Huff, J., Barnes, C., and Supovitz, J. (April, 2006). Measuring the instructional leadership competence of school principals. Paper presented at the Annual American Education Research Association conference. San Francisco, CA.
Spillane, J., Camburn, E., Lewis, G., Pareja, A (April, 2006). Taking a Distributed Perspective in Measuring School leadership and Management: Epistemological and Methodological Trade-offs. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco. San Francisco, CA.
Spillane, J. & Camburn, E. (April, 2006). Taking a Distributed Perspective to the School Principal’s Work day. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association. San Francisco, CA.
Spillane, J. (July, 2005). Distributed Leadership.. Nottingham, Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Spillane, J. (May, 2005). School Leadership Practice: A Structural Analysis. Lyons, France.
Spillane, J. (March, 2005). School Leadership: New Perspectives. Shanghai, China (People's Republic).
Spillane, J. (2005). Conference Paper. I authored or co-authored three conference papers –two presented at the American Educational Research Association Conference this past year. I also present a paper at the International Conference on Cultural Historical Activity Theory in Seville in September.
Biology Guided Inquiry Learning Environments (BGuILE)Other Research/Scholarship
Distributed Leadership Study
Learn-While-Teaching Mathematics Curriculum
Living Curriculum Project
The Practice of School Leadership and the Improvement of Mathematics and Science Instruction in Urban Elementary Schools
Institute for Education Sciences, Education Systems and Broad Reform Review Panel, 2005 – 2008.Research Interests
Spencer Foundation.
Hewlett Foundation. I continued as a faculty fellow with the Institute for Policy Research (IPR), being reappointed for an additional two years when my first three-year term ended.
Policy implementation; educational policy; organizational change; school leadership; relations between policy and teachers' and administrators' practice.
Teaching/Advising
Courses
SESP 372 Methods of Observing Human Behavior Guided practice in systematic and participant observation of human behavior. Observer bias, field notes, unobtrusive measures. LRN_SCI 451 Topics in Learning Sciences Current research topics in the learning sciences. Topics vary. May be repeated for credit with change in topic. HDSP 451 Topics in Human Development and Social Policy Topics vary. May be repeated for credit with change of topic. HDSP 432 Field Methods This course is designed to introduce students to qualitative research, including field work, interviewing, and document analysis. Students will explore qualitative research approaches by undertaking their own research study as well as reading and discussing relevant writing on the subject.
LRN_SCI 451 sec 21 Learn Sci Topics Chicago Curr & School Reform LOC 306 Studies in Org Change Theories and methods of organizational changes are examined through analysis of organizational adaptaions using theories from learning sciences and organizational behavior.
Service/Recognition
Professional Organizations
Professional Service
2005 - 2008 Institute for Education Sciences, Education Systems and Broad Reform Review Panel
Grant Review Panel Participation2005 - 2008 National Academy of Sciences
Board on Science Education2005 - 2008 Institute for Education Sciences, Education Systems and Broad Reform Review Panel 2008 Spencer Foundation, NSF
Reviewed for the Spencer Foundation2005 - 2006 National Academy of Sciences
Board on Science EducationSociety for Research on Educational Effectiveness 2006 - Present Steering Committee for the Consortium for Chicago School Research 2006 - Present Spencer Large Grants Program
Reviewer2006 - Present Education Development Center
Advisory Board2008 - Present Spencer Foundation, NSF
Grant Review Panel Participation
Editorial Boards
Year Organization Position Description 2008 Sociology of Education, Educational Researcher, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Journal of Research on Science Teaching, Science Education, Journal of School Leadership, Teaching and Teacher Education Manuscript Reviewer 2008 Institute for Education Sciences, Educational Systems and Broad Reform Review Panel Grant Review Panel Participation 2008 Hewlett Foundation Grant Review Panel Participation 2008 Educational Development Center Member of Advisory Boards for 2 Research Projects Newton, MA 2008 Cognition and Instruction, School Leadership and Management, Journal of Research on Science Teaching, Irish Educational Studies, and Leadership & Policy in Schools. Editorial Board Member 2006 Teaching and Teacher Education Manuscript Reviewer 2006 Sociology of Education Manuscript Reviewer 2006 Journal of School Leadership Manuscript Reviewer 2006 Journal of Research on Science Teaching Manuscript Reviewer 2006 Educational Researcher Manuscript Reviewer 2006 Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis Manuscript Reviewer 2006 Educational Development Center Member Member of advisory boards of two research projects at Educational Development center in (Newton, MA). 2006 Advisory Board of A Leadership Model for Improving Adolescent Literacy Member Florida State University 2005 Steering Committee for the Consortium for Chicago School Research Member 2005 Spencer Large Grants Program Reviewer 2005 Sociology of Education Manuscript Reviewer 2005 Science Education Manuscript Reviewer 2005 National Academy of Sciences, Board on Science Education Member May 2005 -- ongoing 2005 Journal of Research on Science Teaching Manuscript Reviewer 2005 Institute for Education Sciences, Education Systems and Broad Reform Review Panel Appointed until 2008. 2005 Institute for Educational Sciences, Educational Systems and Broad Reform Review Panel Member 2005 -- 2008 2005 Educational Researcher Manuscript Reviewer 2005 Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis Manuscript Reviewer 2005 Educational Development Center (EDC) Projects Advisory board member Funded by NSF
Year Journal Name Position 2006 School Leadership and Management Member 2006 Leadership & Policy in Schools Member 2006 Journal of Research on Science Teaching Member 2006 Cognition and Instruction Member 2005 Journal of School Leadership Member 2005 Journal of Research on Science Teaching, and Educational Leadership & Policy in Schools Member 2005 Cognition and Instruction Member