Educational Leadership & Policy Studies
Faculty Profile
Chrysan Gallucci
Research Assistant Professor
Dr. Gallucci’s research and teaching focus on education policy and its connection to issues of professional learning. Her particular interest regards how education professionals who work in diverse systems engage problems of practice related to the improvement of teaching and learning. Dr. Gallucci starts with the premise that professional response to policy initiatives and the problems of current educational practice involve learning and she brings sociocultural theories of learning to bear on these issues.
Dr. Gallucci teaches qualitative methods of educational inquiry. Her own research includes a qualitative study of the university/school district partnership work of the Center for Educational Leadership (CEL)—a comparative case study of instructional leadership and improvement in three school districts. She is Research Director for CEL, Research Associate with the Center for the Study of Teaching and Policy, as well as Co-Program Director for a new Masters in Instructional Leadership that will begin in summer, 2007.
Prior to joining the University of Washington faculty, Chrysan was on the research faculty at University of California, Santa Barbara. She has worked as a classroom teacher and has extensive background implementing as well studying inclusive education for students with disabilities.
Recent publications include:
Gallucci, C., Knapp, M.S., Markholt, A., & Ort, S. (In press). Converging reform “theories” in urban middle schools: District-guided instructional improvement in small schools of choice. Teachers College Record.
Peck, C.A., Gallucci, C., & Sloan, T. (In review). Implementing policy mandates in teacher education through inquiry-in-practice: From reform to renewal.
Gallucci, C., Knapp, M.S., Markholt, A., & Ort, S. (2006). Standards-based reform and small schools of choice: How reform theories converge in three urban middle schools. In J. Chrispeels & A. Harris (Eds.), International perspectives on school improvement. New York: Routledge.
Education
Ph.D., University of Washington, 2002
Contact
M207 Miller, Box 353600
College of Education, University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195-3600