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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

James P. Spillane is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States. Their research primarily spans Social Sciences and Decision Sciences, with a significant focus on Education and related subfields.

The main topics of their work include:

  • Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
  • Educational Assessment and Improvement
  • Evaluation and Performance Assessment
  • Innovative Education and Learning Practices
  • Parental Involvement in Education
  • Diverse Educational Innovations Studies
  • Political theory and Gramsci

Spillane has published extensively across various academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • American Educational Research Journal
  • Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis
  • Journal of Research in Science Teaching
  • School Leadership and Management
  • Peabody Journal of Education

Some recent publications authored or co-authored by Spillane are:

  • "Striving for Coherence, Struggling With Incoherence: A Comparative Study of Six Educational Systems Organizing for Instruction" (2022), Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis
  • "The school principal and the development of social capital in primary schools: the formative years" (2020), School Leadership and Management

The following papers were part of collaborative works where Spillane contributed:

  • "Leading instructional improvement in elementary science: State science coordinators' sense-making about the Next Generation Science Standards" (2022), Journal of Research in Science Teaching
  • "Analyzing Instructionally Focused Education Systems: Exploring the Coordinated Use of Complementary Frameworks" (2020), Peabody Journal of Education
  • "Leading Systemwide Improvement in Elementary Science Education: Managing Dilemmas of Education System Building" (2024), American Educational Research Journal

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Spillane include:

  • Christa Haverly
  • Donald J. Peurach
  • Angela Lyle
  • Naomi Blaushild
  • Elizabeth A. Davis

In recognition of contributions to their field, Spillane was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Towards a theory of leadership practice: a distributed perspective

    James P. Spillane;Richard Halverson;John B. Diamond

  • Investigating School Leadership Practice: A Distributed Perspective

    James P. Spillane;Richard Halverson;John B. Diamond

  • Policy Implementation and Cognition: Reframing and Refocusing Implementation Research

    James P Spillane;Brian J Reiser;Todd Reimer

  • Distributed Leadership

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  • Distributed leadership through the looking glass

    Alma Harris;James Spillane

  • External reform initiatives and teachers' efforts to reconstruct their practice: The mediating role of teachers' zones of enactment

    James P. Spillane

  • Distributed leadership in practice

    James P. Spillane;John B. Diamond

  • Teachers' Expectations and Sense of Responsibility for Student Learning: The Importance of Race, Class, and Organizational Habitus

    John B. Diamond;Antonia Randolph;James P. Spillane

  • Chapter 1: Policy and Practice: The Relations Between Governance and Instruction:

    David K. Cohen;James P. Spillane

  • Standards Deviation: How Schools Misunderstand Education Policy

    James P. Spillane

  • Reconstructing Conceptions of Local Capacity: The Local Education Agency’s Capacity for Ambitious Instructional Reform

    James P. Spillane;Charles L. Thompson

  • High-Stakes Accountability in Urban Elementary Schools: Challenging or Reproducing Inequality?

    John B. Diamond;James P. Spillane

  • Cognition and Policy Implementation: District Policymakers and the Reform of Mathematics Education

    James P. Spillane

  • Reform and Teaching: Exploring Patterns of Practice in the Context of National and State Mathematics Reforms:

    James P. Spillane;John S. Zeuli

  • Managing in the Middle: School Leaders and the Enactment of Accountability Policy:

    James P. Spillane;John B. Diamond;Patricia Burch;Tim Hallett

  • Organizational Routines as Coupling Mechanisms: Policy, School Administration, and the Technical Core

    James P. Spillane;Leigh Mesler Parise;Jennifer Zoltners Sherer

  • Taking a Distributed Perspective to the School Principal's Workday.

    James P. Spillane;Eric M. Camburn;Amber Stitziel Pareja

  • State Policy and the Non-Monolithic Nature of the Local School District: Organizational and Professional Considerations:

    James P. Spillane

  • School Districts Matter: Local Educational Authorities and State Instructional Policy

    James P. Spillane

  • Leading instruction: the distribution of leadership for instruction

    James P. Spillane;John B. Diamond;Loyiso Jita

  • Forms of capital and the construction of leadership: Instructional leadership in urban elementary schools

    James P. Spillane;Tim Hallett;John B. Diamond

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth A. Frank
Kenneth A. Frank Michigan State University
Lauren B. Resnick
Lauren B. Resnick University of Pittsburgh
Ellen Goldring
Ellen Goldring Vanderbilt University
Brian J. Reiser
Brian J. Reiser Northwestern University
William R. Penuel
William R. Penuel University of Colorado Boulder
Alma Harris
Alma Harris Cardiff Metropolitan University
Cynthia E. Coburn
Cynthia E. Coburn Northwestern University
Charles W. Anderson
Charles W. Anderson Michigan State University
Mary Kay Stein
Mary Kay Stein University of Pittsburgh
Heather C. Hill
Heather C. Hill Harvard University

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