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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.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Spencer Mentor Award
Spillane, J. P. (PD/PI) & Spillane, J. P. (PD/PI)
10/1/22 → 7/31/25
Project: Research project
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Collaborative Research: Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and Designing School System Educational Infrastructure to support Elementary School Science Instruction
Spillane, J. P. (PD/PI) & Spillane, J. P. (PD/PI)
8/1/18 → 7/31/25
Project: Research project
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Education System (Re)Building for Equitable Access to Quality Teaching and Learning: A Global Dialogue
Spillane, J. P. (PD/PI)
5/1/23 → 9/30/23
Project: Research project
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Educational Leadership at the Intersection of School System and School Building: Conceptualizing Leadership as a Multiple-Level Phenomena
Spillane, J. P. (PD/PI)
Qatar Foundation International, LLC
8/1/18 → 12/31/19
Project: Research project
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A Comparative Study of School Systems: Infrastructure, Practice, and Instructional Improvement
Spillane, J. P. (PD/PI)
9/1/15 → 8/31/19
Project: Research project
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Leading Elementary School Science: Taking a Multilevel Distributed Perspective to Explore Leadership Practice
Lyle, A. M., Spillane, J. P. & Haverly, C., Oct 2024, In: Educational Administration Quarterly. 60, 4, p. 418-451 34 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Leading Systemwide Improvement in Elementary Science Education: Managing Dilemmas of Education System Building
Seeber, E. R., Spillane, J. P., Yin, X., Haverly, C. & Quan, W., Oct 2024, In: American Educational Research Journal. 61, 5, p. 1074-1112 39 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Research Hidden in Plain Sight: Theorizing Latent Use as a Form of Research Use
Bohannon, A. X., Coburn, C. E. & Spillane, J. P., Jun 2024, In: American Educational Research Journal. 61, 3, p. 610-641 32 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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State-Level Efforts to Reform Elementary Science Education
Lyle, A. M., Spillane, J. P. & Haverly, C., Mar 2024, In: Educational Policy. 38, 2, p. 350-390 41 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Teachers Learning On-the-Job Through Participation in an Organizational Routine: A Comparative Case Study of Three Curriculum Materials Adoption Processes for Elementary Science
Haverly, C., Seeber, E. R., Davis, E. A., Spillane, J. P. & Lyle, A. M., 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: Journal of Science Teacher Education.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Version 1
Spillane, J. P. (Creator), Peterson, P. (Creator), Sherin, M. (Creator), Fisher, S. (Creator) & Konstantopoulos, S. (Creator), ICPSR - Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research, 2012
DOI: 10.3886/icpsr33583.v1, http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/studies/33583/version/1
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RETA: Chicago School Staff Social Network Questionnaire Longitudinal Study, 2005-2008
Spillane, J. P. (Creator), Peterson, P. (Creator), Sherin, M. (Creator), Fisher, S. (Creator) & Konstantopoulos, S. (Creator), ICPSR - Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research, 2012
DOI: 10.3886/icpsr32921.v1, http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/studies/32921/version/1
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Archival Version
Spillane, J. P. (Creator), ICPSR - Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research, 2012
DOI: 10.3886/icpsr33582, http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/studies/33582
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Version 1
Spillane, J. P. (Creator), Peterson, P. (Creator), Sherin, M. (Creator), Fisher, S. (Creator) & Konstantopoulos, S. (Creator), ICPSR - Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research, 2012
DOI: 10.3886/icpsr33582.v1, http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/studies/33582/version/1
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