

Center for Educational Innovation and Improvement (CEii)
Publications

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
Equity, Improvement, and Leadership Essays
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School Leadership & Improvement Essays: the Missing LinkDr. Jean Snell | Secret Spaces: How Leaders Expose Stakeholders to Power in Education Policy MakingDr. Cherise Hunter | On the Margin of Continuous ImprovementDamaries Blondonville | Towards a Politics of Improvement ScienceDr. Pamela Callahan |
Improvement Science
Center for Educational Innovation and Improvement. (2024, August). College Park.
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 Quarterly, 0(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 Resources, 43(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.