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Dr. Reed is an Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership in the Department of Educational Foundations, Leadership, and Technology in the College of Education at Auburn University. Her primary research is in the areas of evaluation of school restructuring initiatives, school governance issues, accountability policies, transformative curriculum practices, and systemic leadership development. Other research interests include capacity building for educators, developing learning communities, co-authorship as a tool for teaching and learning, and professional development school policy. She received her Ed.D. in 1997 from the University of Pittsburgh in Administrative and Policy Studies, with a concentration in Educational Policy, Planning, and Evaluation.
Her career spans more than twenty years as an educator, having served as an elementary school teacher, gifted education specialist, middle school principal, and director of collaborative programs between four college/universities and fourteen public school districts in upstate New York. She serves as the Evaluation Coordinator for the West Alabama Learning Coalition, a professional development schools network throughout central and western Alabama, as Evaluation Consultant for the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Lee County, and was a member of the South Florida Annenberg Challenge evaluation team for Auburn University. Dr. Reed is the faculty advisor for the College of Education Student Council and the Department of EFLT’s Community of Learners.
Dr. Reed
has published on areas related to student leadership development and restructuring,
collaborative evaluation, innovative teaching strategies, and policy advocacy
and has presented at numerous regional and national conferences. She is
co-Regional Representative (with Dr. Salisbury- Glennon) for the Eastern
Educational Research Association (EERA). She is a graduate of the
1999-2000 class of Leadership Lee County. Reed recently received the 2000
Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award for the College of Education.