Shirley M. Hord

Shirley M. Hord, Ph.D., is Scholar Laureate in association with the National Staff Development Council, following her retirement as Scholar Emerita at the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory in Austin, Texas. There she directed the Strategies for Increasing Student Success Program. She continues to monitor the Leadership For Change Project, and support applications of the Concerns-Based Adoption Model (CBAM). In addition, she designs and coordinates professional development activities related to educational change, school improvement, and school leadership.

Her early roles as elementary school classroom teacher and university science education faculty at The University of Texas at Austin were followed by her appointment as Co-Director of Research on the Improvement Process at the Research and Development Center for Teacher Education at The University of Texas at Austin. There she administered and conducted research on school improvement and the role of school leadership in school change. This work focused on the concerns and needs of teachers implementing change in their content knowledge and instructional practices, and how leaders support them through structures and staff development interventions during the change process.

She served as a Fellow of the National Center for Effective Schools Research and Development, and was U.S. representative to the Foundation for the International School Improvement Project, an international effort that develops research, training, and policy initiatives to support local school improvement practices.

In addition to working with educators at all levels across the U.S. and Canada, Hord makes presentations and consults in Asia, Europe, Australia, and Africa.

Her current interests focus on qualitative research into understanding and delivering comprehensive educational reform to schools, and the functioning and creation of educational organizations as learning communities and the role of leaders who serve such organizations. Dr. Hord is the author of numbers of articles and books, the most recent of which is (with Gene E. Hall) Implementing Change: Patterns, Principles, and Potholes (3rd edition); Learning Together, Leading Together: Changing Schools Through Professional Learning Communities (editor); Leading Professional Learning Communities: Voices from Research and Practice (2008).

Affiliations:

-National Staff Development Council

BOOKS: 2 Products
 
  Title Lead Author/Editor Pub Date
 
 Price
Guiding Professional Learning Communities This book is available for review to qualified faculty.
Inspiration, Challenge, Surprise, and Meaning 		Shirley M. Hord 11-24-2009 $33.95
Leading Professional Learning Communities This book is available for review to qualified faculty.
Voices From Research and Practice 		Shirley M. Hord 12-15-2007 $31.95

 

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