Ellen Goldring

Ellen Goldring holds the Patricia and Rodes Hart chair and professor of educational leadership in the Department of Leadership, Policy, and Organizations and is vice dean of Peabody College at Vanderbilt University. A past fellow of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and past vice president of AERA’s Division L-Policy and Politics, she is currently evaluation lead for the implementation of the Wallace Foundation’s Principal Supervisor Initiative, a district reform initiative that aims to revise the role of principal supervisors in urban areas. She is also studying the implementation of the Instructional Partnership Initiative, a teacher professional learning approach, and is conducting a validation study of a diagnostic assessment of instructional leadership capacity funded by the Institute of Education Sciences. She is the recipient of the Roald F. Campbell Lifetime Achievement Award from the University Council of Educational Administration and is the editor in chief of the American Educational Research Journal. Goldring received her PhD in education from the University of Chicago.

updated 2004