Morgaen L. Donaldson

Morgaen L. Donaldson is an assistant professor of educational leadership at the University of Connecticut's Neag School of Education and a research affiliate at the University's Center for Education Policy Analysis. She is also a research associate at the Project on the Next Generation of Teachers at Harvard University. Donaldson holds a doctorate in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. As a researcher, she studies policies and practices related to teacher quality, teacher leadership, school and district human capital development, and teachers unions. Her recent publications include "Angling for Access, Bartering for Change: How second-stage teachers experience differentiated roles in schools" in Teachers College Record (2008); "Leading the local: teachers union presidents chart their own course" in the Peabody Journal of Education (forthcoming, 2009); and "Into--and out of--City Schools: The Retention of Teachers Prepared for Urban Settings" in Equity and Excellence in Education (forthcoming, 2009). A former public high school teacher, Donaldson was a founding faculty member of the Boston Arts Academy, Boston's public high school for the arts. She also served as a project manager in a Gates Foundation-funded initiative to replicate the practices of small schools that effectively served low-income and minority students. Donaldson holds an Ed.M. from Harvard Graduate School of Education and an A.B. from Princeton University.