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Sherer, Jennifer
Research Associate, Dr. Resnick
Contact:
802 LRDC
412-624-7569
412-624-9149
jzsherer@pitt.edu
Research Interests: Research Interests 1. Improving leadership practice, teaching and learning by informing practice with theory. 2. Building communities of practice to improve school leadership. 3. Improving schoolsı effectiveness by supporting collaborative work. 4. Improving teaching and learning through tool design and implementation, professional development, reform initiatives, and curriculum.
Publications
- Sherer, J., Gomez, K., Herman, P., Gomez, L., White, J., & Williams, A. (in press) Literacy infusion in a high school environmental science curriculum. In Bruna, K. & Gomez, K. (Eds.) Talking Science, Writing Science: The Work of Language in Multicultural Classrooms. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
- Gomez, K., Gomez, L., Kwon, S., Sherer, J. (in press) Supporting reading-to-learn in science: The application of summarization technology in multicultural urban high school classrooms. In R. Bloymeyer, T. Ganesh, & H. Waxman (eds.) Research in Technology Use in Multicultural Settings. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publications.
- Sherer, J. Z. & Spillane, J.P. (under review) Constancy and change in work practice in schools: The role of organizational routines.
- Sherer, J. Z. (2008) Power in distributed leadership: How teacher agency influences instructional leadership practice. American Educational Research Association Meeting. New York, New York. (Abstract-pdf)
- Resnick, L.B., Besterfield-Sacre, M., Mehalik, M.M., Sherer, J.Z. & Halverson, E.R. (2007). A framework for effective management of school system performance. In P.A. Moss(Ed.). Evidence and Decision Making. The 106th Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education (NSS), Part 1, pp. 155-185. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers. (Abstract-pdf)
- Sherer, J. Z. (2007) Distributed leadership practice in math and language arts: One schoolıs enactment of an organizational routine. In J. Spillane & J. Diamond, (eds.) Distributed Leadership in Practice. New York: Teachers College Press.
- Sherer, J. Z., Clark, R. M., Haynes, A., & Norvelle, G. Building process measures of student engagement: A district/university collaboration. American Educational Research Association Meeting. New York, New York. (Abstract-pdf)
- Sherer, J. Z., Clark, R. M., Besterfield-Sacre, M., & Resnick, L. (2007) Mapping the school system: Learning from how district leaders build a model for improving student learning. American Educational Research Association Meeting. Chicago, Illinois.
- Clark, R. M., Sherer, J. Z., Besterfield-Sacre, M., & Resnick, L. (2007) Combining expert directed graphs of the K-12 educational system. American Educational Research Association Meeting. Chicago, Illinois.
- Sherer, J. Z. (2006) School leadership practice: Putting school subjects into the leadership equation. Unpublished dissertation, Northwestern University. (Abstract-pdf)
- Gomez, K., Sherer, J., Borg, T., Dowling, J., Evans, D. (2006) Literacy infusion in a high school environmental science curriculum. Spectrum, 31(3), Winter, 2006.
- Spillane, J. Sherer, J., & Coldren, A. (2005) Distributed leadership: Leadership practice and the situation. In W. Hoy & C. Miskil (eds.) Educational Leadership and Reform, pp. 149 167. IAP Publishing.
- Spillane, J., Diamond, J., Sherer, J., & Coldren, A. (2004) Distributing leadership. In M. Coles & G. Southworth, Developing Leadership: Creating the Schools of Tomorrow, pp. 37-49. New York: Open University Press.
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