Expertise

Research

  • (1) Investigating teacher leadership and school improvement in a research-practice partnership; (2) teacher policies and teacher labor markets; and (3) distribution of financial aid and its effects on postsecondary persistence and degree attainment.

My K-12 research has two separate strands: a) teacher leadership and school improvement in a research-practice partnership, and b) teacher policies and teacher labor markets. In the first strand of this research, I have been involved in teacher leadership and school improvement work with the IES-funded National Center on Scaling Up Effective Schools (NCSU), a research-practice partnership aimed at linking researchers with practitioners to improve educational outcomes of traditionally underserved high school students in Florida and Texas.

Keywords:

  • Educational policy; education policy; financial aidrurality; rural education

Degrees
PhD, Vanderbilt University, Education Leadership and Policy Studies, 2018
MAT, Washington University, Mathematics; Secondary Education, 2008
BA/BS, University of Oklahoma, Mathematics and Physics, 2006