SRN LEADS/Stanford University: School Redesign Network — Leadership, Equity & Accountability in Districts & Schools

Experts directory

Frank M. Adamson

Areas of Expertise:
Education equity, international assessment, student performance assessment, student socio-economic status, student opportunities to learn, teacher compensation, international education comparison, income inequality, program evaluation, sociology of education.

Additional Information:
"How Does Context Matter? Comparing Achievement Scores, Opportunities to Learn, and Teacher Preparation across Socioeconomic Quintiles using TIMSS And PISA" (dissertation), "Beyond Basic Skills: The Role of Performance Assessment in Achieving 21st Standards of Learning" (co-author with Linda Darling-Hammond), "A New Conceptual Framework for Analyzing the Costs of Performance Assessment" (co-author with Lawrence O. Picus and others). Member of American Education Research Association and Comparative International Education Society.

Linda J. Carstens

Areas of Expertise:
Educational equity, student performance assessment; district and school systems reform, school restructuring, small schools, teacher education and professional development and second language and bilingual instruction.

Diane Friedlaender

Areas of Expertise:
Educational equity in secondary education, urban education, school systems reform, qualitative research methods, distributive leadership, schools as community centers, community-driven school reform, arts education, anti-racism training, youth development, racial identity formation, sociology of education.

Additional Information:
Author of multiple School Redesign Network Publications, including High Schools for Equity, Windows on Conversions and leads High School Study Tours.

Linda Darling-Hammond
Areas of Expertise:
Educational equity, the achievement gap, the opportunity gap; resegregation and unequal schooling, student testing; student performance assessment, high stakes testing, district and school systems reform, school restructuring, small schools, teacher quality, teacher education and professional development, teacher evaluation, education policy, international education practices, effective practices in Australia, Finland, Korea, Singapore, UK, and other high-achieving nations.

Additional Information:
Co-Director of Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education. Founding Director, Faculty Sponsor, School Redesign Network at Stanford University. Education advisor to President Obama. Author, most recently, of "The Flat World and Education: How America's Commiment to Equity Will Determine our Future"

Erik Rice

Areas of Expertise:
Linked Learning (formerly Multiple Pathways), network development and professional learning communities, components of small learning community/small school development and implementation, distributive leadership, adult collaboration, project-based learning, authentic assessment.

Additional Information:
Member of Linked Learning Alliance Leadership Council, Member of Steering Committee for Greater Bay Area Mental Health & Education Workforce Collaborative, Author of “Distributive Leadership in District Reform” knowledge brief and Former Principal of the Life Academy.

Elle Rustique
Areas of expertise:
High School Redesign Network, small schools, educational reform, educational policy, performance based-assessment systems, teacher quality, teacher leadership, high-stakes testing, accountability, student exclusion, school disaffection, graduation portfolios,

Additional Information:
Former Teacher of Central Park East Secondary School in East Harlem, co-author of "Working with Disaffected Students: Why Students Lose Interest in School and What We Can Do About It" (2002) with Kathryn Riley; co-author of "Multiple Measures Approaches to High School Graduation" (2005), co-authored with Linda Darling-Hammond and Raymond Pecheone; previously directed the New Performance Assessment Collaborative, a consortium of small and redesigned high schools committed to creating rigorous, performance-based assessments for graduation and demonstrating college and workplace readiness; PhD dissertation on the impact of England's accountability system on teachers and schools' responses to low-performing students.

Darling-Hammond named in top 10 most influential

In January, 2007, SRN LEADS Co-executive Director Linda Darling-Hammond was named as one of the 10 most influential people in the field of education over the last decade. The ranking came from a study conducted by the Editorial Projects in Education Research Center, a program of Education Week. Darling-Hammond holds the number 10 spot (shared with U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings) and is the only full-time academic listed. Read more about Darling-Hammond.