Assistant Professor Iacocca Hall 111 Research Drive Bethlehem, PA 18015 Phone 610 758-3246 Fax 610 758-6223 meb205@lehigh.edu

Dr. Barber's research interests center on the relationships between school leadership preparation and subsequent leadership practice and effectiveness. It focuses on three core dimensions of this pathway from preparation to practice in order to understand the ways in which preparation impacts principals’ capacity to influence systemic school improvement—the preparation program design features and their learning attributes; the leadership practices developed by these preparation experiences; and the school-level outcomes of these practices, particularly those directed toward building individual teacher and collective organizational capacity. This research focuses dually on the domains of the pathway as well as on the development of evaluation strategies for measuring leadership impact.

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