Jerry Longo
School of Education
University of Pittsburgh
4320 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
PHONE: 412-648-1937
EMAIL:
longoj@pitt.eduFull Time Faculty - Visiting Associate Professor and Senior Fellow
Dr. R. Gerard Longo, who prefers to be called Jerry, recently completed a 42-year public school career. He served as an English teacher, principal, central office administrator and school superintendent. He was superintendent in the Steel Valley and the Quaker Valley School Districts, for 7 and 15 years respectively. Longo also served 6 years on the Pennsylvania State Board of Education and played a leadership role in a major reform of the state's curriculum standards.
Dr. Longo is the Executive Director of the Western Pennsylvania Forum for School Superintendents and Co-director of the Educational Leadership Initiative, ELI. He is a graduate of Leadership Pittsburgh, Year IV. Longo taught graduate classes at California University of Pennsylvania on Strategic Leadership and Technology in Education. Longo serves on the Board of Three Rivers Connect and is chairperson of the education committee. He is a member of the Middle States Association’s Strategic Planning Advisory Committee. He served for over a decade on the Board of ASSET, Inc., a model inquiry-based science program.
Longo was chosen as the 1997 Pennsylvania Superintendent of the Year, the 1995 Tri-State Area Study Council's Distinguished Educator, the recipient of the 2004 AASA President's Technology Award, A 1996 Distinguished Alumni of Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, a recipient of the Pennsylvania Association of School Administrators’ EI/John Kresovich Award for Innovation in Instruction and Use of Technology,the 2006 Pennsylvania Music Educator's Superintendent of the Year and the 2007 Western Pennsylvania Library Association Advocate Awardee.
Dr.Longo has studied leadership issues at the Norham
Centre for Leadership Studies at St. Peter's College, Oxford, the Leadership Institute at the University of Southern California and with the Center for Creative Leadership of Greensboro, NC.
His responsibilities in the School of Education include co-directing the Educational Leadership Initiative, coordinating the Western Pennsylvania Forum for School Superintendents and teaching in Administration and Policy Studies.
His professional interests are in strategic leadership, labor-management collaboration, governance and policy, technology, and school and curricular reform.
School Affiliations
- Department: Administrative and Policy Studies - Visiting Associate Professor and Senior Fellow
Education
Recent Course Instruction
Spring 2009 (2094)
Fall 2008 (2091)
Summer 2008 (2087)
Spring 2008 (2084)
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Recent Presentations
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Current Professional Participation
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Recent Consulting
- Education Leadership Initiative (ELI)
- I act as a colleague in residence to an ELI School District and plan and participate in professional development activities for all ELI school districts.
- Quaker Valley School District (QVSD)
- I maintain a consulting relationship with the school district as an element of my retirement arrangements.
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Recent Grants
- The Educational Leadership Initiative has received $400,000 from the Grable Foundation.
- The Educational Leadership Initiative has received $200,000 from the Benedum Foundation.
- The Educational Leadership Initiative has received $100,000 from the Pittsburgh Foundation.
- Western Pennsylvania Forum for School Superintendents received a grant for operational support from the Heinz Foundation in the amount of $25,000.
- Western Pennsylvania Forum for School Superintendents received fees for operational support from school districts in the amount of $35,384.
- Western Pennsylvania Forum for School Superintendents received a grant for operational support from the Henry Clay Frick Foundation in the amount of $20,000.
- Western Pennsylvania Forum for School Superintendents received a grant for operational support from the Grable Foundation in the amount of $60,000.
- The Educational Leadership Initiative has received $400,000 from the Heinz Foundation.
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Recent Fellowships, Awards, and Honors
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Recent Collaborative Efforts
- Service Outside the University
- Allegheny County Challenge Program Advisory Council. This program is intended to create a bridge between high school students and regional employers.
- Trustee, Laughlin Center for Children
- Strategic Advisory Committee, Commission on Secondary Schools, Middle States Association
- 3 Rivers Connect, 3rc, Board Member and Education Committee Chair
- ASSET, Inc., Leadership Council, former Board Member and President
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