Ellen Goldring

Ellen Goldring is the Patricia and Rodes Hart Chair and professor of educational leadership in the Department of Leadership, Policy and Organizations, and vice dean of Peabody College at Vanderbilt University. Her research interests focus on the intersection of education policy and school improvement with particular emphases on education leadership. A fellow of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and past vice president of AERA’s Division L-Policy and Politics, her research examines leadership practice, and the implementation and effects of interventions such as professional development, coaching, and performance feedback. Currently, she is leading the evaluation of 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 districts. She is 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 also 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. Dr. Goldring holds a PhD in education from the University of Chicago, an MA in education from Tel-Aviv University, and a BA in education, Hebrew and semitic studies from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

updated 2004