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CEii Essays in Improvement & Leadership

The Leadership, Equity, and Improvement (LEI) Essay Series is written by the faculty, staff, and graduate students at the Center for Educational Innovation and Improvement.  In this series, we share our lived experience, professional knowledge, and research around leadership aimed at equity and improvement.  Our essays are published monthly, and we welcome your thoughts and feedback.

On Boundary Spanning, Partnership, and improvement   Dr. Segun Eubanks	Leadership, improvement, and Equity: Building the Foundation for Effective School-University partnerships   Dr. Segun Eubanks	Secret Spaces: How Leaders Expose Stakeholders to Power in Education Policy Making   Dr. Cherise Hunter	Towards a Politics of Improvement Science   Dr. Pamela Callahan Coming Soon

On the Margin of Continuous Improvement   Damaries Blondonville Coming Soon	School Leadership & Improvement Essays: the Missing Link   Dr. Jean Snell Coming Soon	Coming soon	Coming soon

Publications

Improvement Science

Center for Educational Innovation and Improvement. (2024, August). College Park. 

Eubanks S., Neumerski C.M., Callahan P.C., Anthony D., Snell J., Blondonville D., Viviani W., and Liccione L. (2024), Fostering Improvement: a reflection on equity-centered improvement across three initiatives. Front. Educ. 9:1434362. 

Neumerski, C.M. and Yurkofsky, M.M. (2024), "Dilemmas in district–university partnerships: examining network improvement communities as levers for systems change", , Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print.  

Eubanks, S., McLaughlin, M., Snell, J. L., & Coleman, C. (2021). From learning to leading: Teaching leaders to apply improvement science through a school-university partnership. Teaching improvement science in educational leadership, 141-162. 

Leadership

Neumerski, C. M., Goldring, E., Cox, A., Rogers, L., Moyer, A., & Rubin, M. (2025). Instructional Leadership Plus: Central Office Leaders Rethink the Principalship. Educational Administration Quarterly, 0(0). 

Rogers, L. K., Cox, A., Goldring, E., Moyer, A., Neumerski, C. M., & Rubin, M. (2025). School Districts’ Use of Talent Analytics: Barriers and Possibilities. Journal of Education Human Resources, 43(2), 432-442.

Leonard, J., Blondonville‐Ford, D., Grubb, D., Cheng, D., & Wang, X. (2025). Self‐efficacy, agency, and values as predictors of STEM teacher leader identity in urban‐like learning environments. School Science and Mathematics. DOI: 10.1111/ssm.18347Sch

Callahan, P. C., & Brantlinger, A. (2023). Altruism, Jobs, and Alternative Certification: Mathematics Teachers’ Reasons for Entry and Their Retention. Education and Urban Society, 55(9), 1089-1119.  

Patrick, S. K., Rogers, L. K., Goldring, E., Neumerski, C. M., & Robinson, V. (2021). Opening the black box of leadership coaching: an examination of coaching behaviors. Journal of Educational Administration, 59(5), 549-563. 

Partnerships

Eubanks, S., Snell, J. (2023). "From a Transactional Relationship to a Transformational Partnership." In L. Gomez, M. Biag, D. Imig, R. Hitz, & S. Tozer (Eds.) Improving America's Schools Together, 126-148. 

School & System Transformation

Spillane, J. P., Blaushild, N. L., Neumerski, C. M., Seelig, J. L., & Peurach, D. J. (2022). Striving for coherence, struggling with incoherence: A comparative study of six educational systems organizing for instruction. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 44(4), 567-592.

Education Law & Policy

Dhingra, N., & Callahan, P. (2025). The Fastest Known Way to Get Rid of Enemies: Children’s Literature, Forgiveness, and the Liberal Arts. COSMOS + TAXIS, 112–129.  

Callahan, P. C., & Miller, J. D. (2024). Avenues for Engagement? Testing the Democratic Nature of Library Book Challenge Processes. Teachers College Record, 126(4-5), 31-56. 

Eubanks, S., Goldson, M., & Callahan, P. (2024). Replace or repair: Exploring possible methods for improving school governance. Theory Into Practice, 1–12.