Dianne Taylor: UCEA EC 2012 Candidate Interview

UCEA Headquarters doctoral student Amy Reynolds interviews Executive Committee candidate Dr. Dianne Taylor.

Candidate Bio: Dianne L. Taylor is an associate professor of educational leadership at Louisiana State University. She has been active in UCEA, serving as Program Co-chair for the 2000 annual convention, as a faculty mentor for the 2002 David C. Clark National Graduate Student Research Seminar in Educational Administration, and as a Plenum Session Representative from 1997-2005 and from 2010 to the present. She was a member of the UCEA research team that was formed in 2010 in response to an NCATE requirement that the empirical research related to the revision of the ELCC standards then under development be summarized to describe how the findings applied to the proposed revised standards. She is participating on a similar research team for the upcoming revision of the ISLLC standards. Taylor’s research interests are school improvement, leadership, social justice, and policies affecting these areas. She has published her research in  such journals as Journal of School Leadership,  Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Equity & Excellence in Education, and Journal of Educational Administration and History and has served on the editorial boards of Educational Administration Quarterly and the Journal of School Leadership.