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James P Spillane

  • 5643 Citations
1992 …2023

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Research Interests

Professor Spillane has published extensively on issues of education policy, policy implementation, school reform, and school leadership. His work explores the policy implementation process at the state, district, school, and classroom levels, focusing on intergovernmental and policy-practice relations. He also studies organizational leadership and change, conceptualizing organizational leadership as a distributed practice. Recent projects include studies of relations between organizational infrastructure and instructional advice-seeking in schools and the socialization of new school principals.

Education/Academic qualification

Curriculum, Teaching and Educational Policy, PhD, Michigan State University

… → 1993

Education, MA, California State University Chico

… → 1985

Education and Geography, Baccalaureate, St Patrick's College, Maynooth

… → 1984

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Grants

Collaborative Research: Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and Designing School System Educational Infrastructure to support Elementary School Science Instruction

Spillane, J. P.

National Science Foundation

8/1/18 → 7/31/23

Project: Research project

    • Multidisciplinary Program in Educational Sciences

    Adam, E. K., Chase-Lansdale, L., Coburn, C. E., Cook, T. D., Destin, M. P., Easterday, M. W., Figlio, D. N., Gerber, E. M., Guryan, J. E., Hedges, L. V., Horn, M. S., Ispa-Landa, S., Jackson, C. K., Lam, W. S. E., Lee, C. D., Medin, D. L., Rapp, D. N., Rosenbaum, J. E., Schanzenbach, D. W., Sherin, B. L., Smilowitz, K. R., Spencer, B. D., Spillane, J. P. & Uttal, D. H.

    Institute of Education Sciences

    9/1/14 → 8/31/20

    Project: Research project

    • Center for Interactive Knowledge Utilization

    Coburn, C. E. & Spillane, J. P.

    University of Colorado Boulder, Institute of Education Sciences

    7/1/14 → 6/30/20

    Project: Research project

    • Educational Leadership at the Intersection of School System and School Building: Conceptualizing Leadership as a Multiple-Level Phenomena

    Spillane, J. P.

    Qatar Foundation International, LLC

    8/1/18 → 12/31/19

    Project: Research project

    • A Comparative Study of School Systems: Infrastructure, Practice, and Instructional Improvement

    Spillane, J. P.

    Spencer Foundation

    9/1/15 → 8/31/19

    Project: Research project

    • Research Output

    Comparatively Studying Educational System (Re)Building Cross-Nationally: Another Agenda for Cross-National Educational Research?

    Spillane, J. P., Peurach, D. J. & Cohen, D. K., Sep 1 2019, In : Educational Policy. 33, 6, p. 916-945 30 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    • 3 Scopus citations

    Educational infrastructure, professional learning, and changes in teachers’ instructional practices and beliefs

    Shirrell, M., Hopkins, M. & Spillane, J. P., Aug 8 2019, In : Professional Development in Education. 45, 4, p. 599-613 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    • 5 Scopus citations

    Educational System Building

    Cohen, D. K. & Spillane, J. P., Sep 1 2019, In : Educational Policy. 33, 6, p. 807-811 5 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial

    • Educational System Building in a Changing Educational Sector: Environment, Organization, and the Technical Core

    Spillane, J. P., Seelig, J. L., Blaushild, N. L., Cohen, D. K. & Peurach, D. J., Sep 1 2019, In : Educational Policy. 33, 6, p. 846-881 36 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    • 3 Scopus citations

    From Mass Schooling to Education Systems: Changing Patterns in the Organization and Management of Instruction

    Peurach, D. J., Cohen, D. K., Yurkofsky, M. M. & Spillane, J. P., Mar 1 2019, In : Review of Research in Education. 43, 1, p. 32-67 36 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article

    • 4 Scopus citations