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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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A Comparative Study of School Systems: Infrastructure, Practice, and Instructional Improvement
9/1/15 → 8/31/19
Project: Research project
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Fostering Research Use in School Districts Through External Partnerships: The Role of District Capacity
Coburn, C. E. & Spillane, J. P.
7/1/15 → 12/31/18
Project: Research project
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Multidisciplinary Program in Educational Sciences
Schanzenbach, D. W., Jackson, C. K., Rapp, D. N., Spillane, J. P., 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., Lam, W. S. E., Lee, C. D., Medin, D. L., Rosenbaum, J. E., Sherin, B. L., Smilowitz, K., Spencer, B. D. & Uttal, D. H.
Institute of Education Sciences
9/1/14 → 8/31/21
Project: Research project
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Leading instructional improvement in elementary science: State science coordinators' sense-making about the Next Generation Science Standards
Haverly, C., Lyle, A., Spillane, J. P., Davis, E. A. & Peurach, D. J., 2022, (Accepted/In press) In: Journal of Research in Science Teaching.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Striving for Coherence, Struggling With Incoherence: A Comparative Study of Six Educational Systems Organizing for Instruction
Spillane, J. P., Blaushild, N. L., Neumerski, C. M., Seelig, J. L. & Peurach, D. J., 2022, (Accepted/In press) In: Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Multilevel distributed leadership: From why to how
Alfadala, A., Morel, R. P. & Spillane, J. P., Sep 2 2021, Future Alternatives for Educational Leadership: Diversity, Inclusion, Equity and Democracy. Taylor and Francis, p. 79-92 14 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Performance-based accountability systems cross-nationally: learning by comparing
Spillane, J. P., Aug 2021, In: Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability. 33, 3, p. 581-585 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review
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Analyzing Instructionally Focused Education Systems: Exploring the Coordinated Use of Complementary Frameworks
Peurach, D. J., Yurkofsky, M. M., Blaushild, N., Sutherland, D. H. & Spillane, J. P., Aug 7 2020, In: Peabody Journal of Education. 95, 4, p. 336-355 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2 Scopus citations