Jennifer Russell

Jennifer Russell
School of Education
University of Pittsburgh
5801 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
PHONE: 412-383-5148
EMAIL: jrussel@pitt.edu

Full Time Faculty - Assistant Professor/Research Scientist

School Affiliations

Department: Dean's Office
Department: Learning Policy Center
Program: Cognitive Studies
Program: Learning Sciences and Policy

Recent Publications

Book Chapters

Hamilton, L., Stecher, B., Russell, J. L., Marsh, J., & Miles, J. (in press). Standards-Based Accountability and Instructional Practice: Linking School- and Teacher-Level Responses. Research in the Sociology of Education.

Journal Articles

Curry, M., Jaxon, K., Russell, J. L., Callahan, M. A., & Bicais, J. (2008). Examining the Practice of Beginning Teachers’ Micropolitical Literacy within Professional Inquiry Communities. Teaching and Teacher Education.

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Recent Course Instruction

Spring 2009 (2094)

EDUC 2595 - SPECIAL TOPICS - LSAP

Fall 2008 (2091)

EDUC 3595 - SPECIAL TOPICS - LSAP

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Recent Presentations

Kindergarten teaching in an era of accountability: How accountability policies shape instruction in an untested grade. Presented at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting. New York, New York
From child's garden to academic press: Shifting institutional logics defining kindergarten educational. Presented at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting 2008, New York, New York.

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Current Professional Participation

American Educational Research Association (AERA)
- Annual Conference Proposal Reviewer
- Member of American Educational Research Association, Division L and Organizational Theory SIG
American Sociological Association (ASA)
- Member, Sociology of Education Section

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Recent Consulting

RAND Corporation
- Consultant for the Implementing Standards Based Accountability study.

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Recent Grants

National Science Foundation, City as Learning Lab: Spreading Technological Fluency Through Creative Robotics, $1,884,875. Crowley (PI), DiSalvo (co-PI), Nourbakhsh (co-PI), Russell (senior personnel).
LRDC Research Development Funds, The Ecology of Educational Opportunities in Pittsburgh, $75,824. Russell (PI), Bickel (co-PI), Crowley (co-PI), & Knutson (co-PI).
RAND Corporation, Testing the Validity of the Cohesive Leadership System Hypothesis and the State Role in Improving School Leadership, $109,516. Russell (PI). [Subaward from a grant to RAND from the Wallace Foundation].

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