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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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Education System (Re)Building for Equitable Access to Quality Teaching and Learning: A Global Dialogue
5/1/23 → 9/30/23
Project: Research project
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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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State-Level Efforts to Reform Elementary Science Education
Lyle, A. M., Spillane, J. P. & Haverly, C., 2023, (Accepted/In press) In: Educational Policy.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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., Nov 2022, In: Journal of Research in Science Teaching. 59, 9, p. 1575-1606 32 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access4 Scopus citations -
School leaders' use of research: viewing research use in decision making through an organizational lens
Wong, L. S., Huguet, A., Harrison, C. W., Coburn, C. E. & Spillane, J. P., Jan 1 2022, International Encyclopedia of Education: Fourth Edition. Elsevier, p. 235-242 8 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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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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Designing Educational Infrastructures for Improvement: Instructional Coaching and Professional Learning Communities
Hopkins, M., Spillane, J. P. & Shirrell, M., Jan 1 2021, Networked by Design: Interventions for Teachers to Develop Social Capital. Taylor and Francis, p. 174-195 22 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
5 Scopus citations
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Version 1
Spillane, J. P. (Creator), Peterson, P. L. (Creator), Sherin, M. G. (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. L. (Creator), Sherin, M. G. (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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Version 1
Spillane, J. P. (Creator), Peterson, P. L. (Creator), Sherin, M. G. (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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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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