EDUCATION
Columbia University, Teachers College, New York, NY,  Ed.D. 2006 Educational Leadership

Columbia University, Teachers College, New York, NY,  MA 2001 Educational Administration

Bates College cum laude, Phi Beta Keppa  B.A. 1993 English & American Cultural Studies

RESEARCH
Dr. Margaret 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.

COURSES
EdL 400 Intro to Organizational Leadership: Theory and Practice
EdL 405 The Principalship
EdL 429 Practicum in Educational Leadership
EdL 488 Program Evaluation
EdL 489 Doctoral Seminar

VITA
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