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Center for Educational Innovation and Improvement (CEii)

Publications

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The CEii team鈥檚 work includes a growing collection of original Leadership and Improvement Essays, as well as scholarly publications organized by category: 

  • Improvement Science
  • Leadership
  • Partnerships
  • School & System Transformation
  • Education Law & Policy

Leadership & Improvement Essays: Coming Soon

School Leadership and Improvement Science
Secret Spaces
On the Margin of Continuous Improvement
Towards a Politics of Improvement Science
School Leadership & Improvement Essays: the Missing Link
Dr. Jean Snell
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Secret Spaces: How Leaders Expose Stakeholders to Power in Education Policy Making
Dr. Cherise Hunter
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On the Margin of Continuous Improvement
Damaries Blondonville
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Towards a Politics of Improvement Science
Dr. Pamela Callahan
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Improvement Science

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鈥搖niversity 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 Quarterly0(0). 

Rogers, L. K., Cox, A., Goldring, E., Moyer, A., Neumerski, C. M., & Rubin, M. (2025). School Districts鈥 Use of Talent Analytics: Barriers and Possibilities. Journal of Education Human Resources43(2), 432-442.

Leonard, J., Blondonville鈥怓ord, D., Grubb, D., Cheng, D., & Wang, X. (2025). Self鈥恊fficacy, agency, and values as predictors of STEM teacher leader identity in urban鈥恖ike learning environments. School Science and Mathematics. DOI: 10.1111/ssm.18347Sch

Callahan, P. C., & Brantlinger, A. (2023). Altruism, Jobs, and Alternative Certification: Mathematics Teachers鈥 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鈥檚 Literature, Forgiveness, and the Liberal Arts. COSMOS + TAXIS, 112鈥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鈥12.