Vicki Park
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Vicki Park
Associate Professor,
San Diego State University
Vicki Park is an associate professor of educational leadership at San Diego State University's College of Education. Her research focuses on the implementation of education policy, urban school reform, and organizational learning, with the goal of bridging the research-to-practice and practice-to-research gap to improve educational opportunities for all students. Park started her career as a middle and elementary school teacher. She received her PhD in urban education policy with an emphasis on K–12 administration from the University of Southern California.
updated 2019
Publications by Vicki Park
How School Districts Craft Coherence Towards Continuous Improvement
Using qualitative case study methods, we examine how educators describe continuous improvement and craft coherence for implementation. We find that educators attempted to build system-wide improvement capabilities, taking into consideration…
The Case of Long Beach Unified School District
This case study in the Long Beach Unified School District (LBUSD) is part of a broader set of reports on findings from the CORE-PACE Research Partnership’s developmental evaluation in 2018–19. The research in 2018–19 focused on elevating lessons…
Early lessons from the CORE districts
In California, recent policy shifts have created a high degree of local control with the expectation that school districts will think differently about school and district improvement. However, many districts lack the individual expertise and…
Early Implementation Findings from the CORE Waiver Districts
California and the nation are at the crossroads of a major shift in school accountability policy. At the state level, California’s Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP) encourages the use of multiple measures of school performance used…