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About Juliann McBrayer

Research Interests: Research focused on the development, implementation, and assessment of educational leadership and teacher preparation programs to ensure effectiveness and accountability through evidence-based practices. Evaluation of models and programs that prepare and train leaders and teachers. Student self-efficacy in an effort to prepare scholarly practitioners via graduate programs from the master’s through to the doctoral level.  Distributed leadership with an emphasis on teacher leadership. Purposeful and sustainable professional learning with a focus on professional learning communities and innovative pedagogy. Advance academic outcomes through strong P-20 partnerships in an effort to achieve educational reform.

Positions

Present Faculty Member, Georgia Southern University ‐ Department of Leadership, Technology, and Human Development
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Curriculum Vitae

Disciplines

Research Interests

Grants

2020 Project GAME: Developing and piloting a game design based computer science curriculum
National Science Foundation
Role: Advisory Board Member
$300,000
2020 The impact of restorative discipline practices on academic and non-academic factors in rural elementary and secondary schools in southeast Georgia
College of Education’s Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Support Award
Role: PI
$6,500
2018 Boys and Girls Club STEM Learning Community and Planning Grant
Boys and Girls Club
$5,500.00
2018 Graduate Student Professional Development Fund for Research
Graduate Valuation of an Undergraduate Leadership Program/Georgia Southern University, The Graduate Student Council Organization
$889.94
2016 Innovative Incentive Proposal: P-20 Partners Learning Together
Georgia Southern University, College of Education
$10,000
2013 Governor’s Office of Student Achievement Innovation Fund Grant
Georgia Charter Schools Association
Building the 13 Pipeline of Highly Effective Charter Teachers and Leaders 2013
$557,151
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Professional Service and Affiliations

2021 - Present Member, Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Committee, GSU
2021 - Present Member, Tenure, Promotion, and Welfare Committee, GSU
2020 - Present Volunteer, COVID-19 Point of Dispensing (POD), GSU
2020 - Present Member, College of Education General Education Curriculum Subcommittee for the Mission, GSU
2020 - Present Member, National Youth Advocacy and Resilience (NYAR) Research Center Planning Team, GSU
2019 - Present Member, College of Education Strategic Planning Committee, GSU
2019 - Present Member, University Strategic Enrollment Sub-Committee, Graduate Education, GSU
2019 - Present Member, University Strategic Planning Sub-Committee, Excellence in Teaching and Research, GSU
2018 - Present Committee member, College of Education Curriculum Committee, GSU
2016 - Present Program Coordinator, Educational Leadership P-12 Master’s Degree Program, GSU
2018 - 2021 Member, University Student Conduct Board, Georgia Southern University
2017 - 2019 Co-Chair, P-12 Assistant Professor faculty searches, GSU
2017 - 2018 Committee member, College of Education Technology Committee, GSU
2017 - 2018 Member, Occupational Work Group: Masters of Education Consolidation Work Group , GSU
2017 - 2018 Member, Occupational Work Group: Sub-Group, Educational Leadership Teacher Leader Endorsement, GSU
2015 - 2018 Grant Team Member, College of Education Faculty-in-Residency Grant Writing Team/Innovation Incentive Program, GSU
2015 - 2018 Council member, College of Education P-20 Partnership Network Council, GSU
2015 - 2018 Board Member, College of Education edTPA Advisory Board, GSU
2015 - 2017 Co-Investigator, Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate
2015 - 2016 Program Coordinator, Educational Leadership Doctoral Degree Program, GSU
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Honors and Awards

  • Ohio University Teaching Fellowship Award Recipient/Ohio University
  • Net.s Work Science and Technology Integration Grant Award Participant/Ohio University
  • National Science Foundation Grant Award Participant/Georgia Southern University
  • Research Experience for Teacher Grant Award Participant/Georgia Southern University
  • Omicron Delta Kappa Inductee/Georgia Southern University
  • Dr. Malcolm Katz Memorial Scholarship Recipient/Georgia Southern University
  • Coca Cola Award Recipient/Georgia Charter Schools Association
  • Education Administration Doctoral Fellowship/Georgia Southern University
  • College of Education Research Award for Scholarly Productivity, $12,000/Georgia Southern University (2019)
  • Georgia Southern University Strategic Pillar Award Nominee for Excellence in Contributions to Teaching
  • College of Education Jack Miller Award Nominee for Service/Georgia Southern University (2019)
  • College of Education Jack Miller Award Recipient for Teaching/Georgia Southern University (2019)
  • College of Education Jack Miller Award Nominee for Educator of the Year/Georgia Southern University (2020)

Courses

  • EDLD 7530-Transformational School Leadership (Online)
  • EDLD 7535-Utilizing Data in Leadership (Online)
  • EDLD 7536-Developing Professional Learning Communities (Online)
  • EDLD 7737-Supervised Field Experience I (Online)
  • EDLD 7738-Supervised Field Experience I (Online)
  • EDLD 8433-Higher Education Governance (Online)
  • EDLD 8435-Higher Education Policy (Online)
  • EDLD 8631-Implementing Change (Hybrid)
  • EDLD 8839-Directed Research (Hybrid)
  • EDLD 9435-Transformative Practice II (Hybrid)
  • EDLD 9534-Cognitive Issues in Higher Education (Online)
  • EDLD 9631-Research Seminar I (Hybrid)
  • EDLD 9632-Research Seminar II (Hybrid)
  • EDLD 9633-Research Seminar III (Hybrid)
  • EDLD 9634-Research Seminar IV (Hybrid)

Education

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1999 Master of Education, M.Ed., Ohio University
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1996 Associate of Applied Science, A.A.S., Johnson & Wales University - Charleston
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1995 Bachelor of Arts, B.A., State University of New York College at Brockport
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Links

Contact Information

College of Education
P.O. Box 8013 
Statesboro, Georgia
Zip:30460
912-478-5648

Email:

ORCID

Peer-reviewed Publications (24)

International/National Peer-Reviewed Presentations (19)