Rebecca Woodland is an associate professor of Educational Leadership &
Administration. A former secondary school teacher in Massachusetts and Colorado, she
received her BA in political science from UMass-Amherst (1991), her MA in special
education from the University of Northern Colorado (1996), and the PhD in educational
leadership from Colorado State University (2001). Dr. Woodland has been the principal
investigator on a number of large-scale evaluation research projects and was awarded the
prestigious Marcia Guttentag award for excellence in evaluation by the American
Evaluation Association in 2005. Her scholarship focuses on instructional leadership,
school improvement, and organizational collaboration.

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Handbook on Planning, Evaluating, and Improving Interagency Collaboration (2010)
 

Proposed MA DESE Standards for School Leaders and Alignment and the Research Base for the MA Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (with A. Churchill) (2009)
 

Communities of practice as an analytical construct: Implications for theory practice (with C. Koliba), International Journal of Public Administration (2009)

The “community of practice” (CoP) has emerged as a potentially powerful unit of analysis linking...

 

Standards that work: Teachable, actionable, measurable standards for 21st century school leaders (with M. Militello), MASCD Perspectives (2009)
 

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The impact of accountability policies and alternative certification on principals' perceptions of pre-service preparation (with M. Militello and A. Bowers), Journal of Research on Leadership (2009)
 

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