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Joseph F. Johnson, Jr., Ph.D., is the Executive Director of the National
Center for Urban School Transformation and the Qualcomm Professor
of Urban Education within the Department of Educational Leadership at
San Diego State University. He has previously served as a teacher, school
and district administrator, state education agency administrator in Texas
and Ohio, researcher and technical assistance provider, and U.S. Department
of Education official. His research focuses upon schools that achieve
remarkable academic results for diverse populations of students. His work
has appeared in journals such as Education and Urban Society, Educational
Administration Quarterly, Educational Leadership, International Journal of Leadership
in Education, Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, Phi Delta
Kappan, and Theory into Practice.
Lynne G. Perez, Ph.D., is the Associate Director of the National Center
for Urban School Transformation at San Diego State University. She also
serves as a part-time lecturer with San Diego State's Department of Educational
Leadership. She serves as an executive coach in the center's Advancing
Principal Leadership in Urban Schools Program. Her work on school
leadership issues has appeared in journals such as Educational Administration
Quarterly, Educational Leadership, Journal of Education for Students Placed
at Risk, Journal of Educational Leadership, Journal of School Leadership, and
Teacher College Record.
Cynthia L. Uline, Ph.D., is a professor of educational leadership at San Diego
State University and executive director of San Diego State's National Center
for the 21st Century Schoolhouse: coe .sdsu .edu/ edl/ schoolhouse/
index .php. She also served as an assistant and associate professor of educational
administration at The Ohio State University from 1995 to 2005. Her
research explores the influence of built learning environments on students'
learning, as well as the roles educational leaders, teachers, and the community
play in shaping these learning spaces. Other areas of research include
school leadership for learning and school reform and improvement. Her
work has appeared in journals such as Educational Administration Quarterly,
Journal of Educational Administration, Teachers College Record, Journal of School
Leadership, Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, and The Journal of
Research and Development in Education. |