Faculty: Janice Jackson, EdD

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Janice Jackson, EdD

Adjunct Faculty, Graduate Certificate in School Leadership

Email
janice_jackson@Williamjames.edu
Degree Institution Year
EdD Harvard Graduate School of Education 2011

Courses

  • LP707: Shaping School Culture

Research and Practice Interests

  • prK-12 leadership 
  • Transformative systemic change
  • Anti-racist strategies for leading schools and districts/DEI
  • Healing centered leadership
  • Teaching and learning
  • Teachers’ and principals’ professional identity

Prior Experience

Senior Advisor for Equity and Inclusion for Transformative Educational Leadership (TEL). 2019-2021

National Equity Project, Oakland, CA

  • Senior Associate (Leadership Development and Coaching Services) 2013-2014
  • Subcontractor (Leadership Development and Coaching Services) 2014-2016

Stanford University, Stanford, CA 2011-2013

  • Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education
  • Executive Director

Independent Education Consultant 2010-2011

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, MA
Harvard Graduate School of Education

  • Lecturer
  • Senior Associate-ExEL
  • 2006-2010
  • (A collaborative project among the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard Business School, And the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, funded by the Wallace Foundation)
  • Harvard Graduate School of Education/University of Johannesburg Partnership
  • The Education Leadership Initiative
  • Planning Team and Faculty 2009-2010

BOSTON COLLEGE

  • Lynch School of Education-Teacher Education and Educational Administration
  • Lecturer 1998-2006
  • Carroll School of Management- Leadership for Change
  • Adjunct Professor

BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS, Boston, MA 1996- 1998

  • 64,000 student K-12 district
  • Deputy Superintendent

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, Washington, DC 10/95-12/95

  • Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE)
  • Acting Assistant Secretary

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, Washington, DC 1994-1995

  • Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE)
  • Deputy Assistant Secretary

SAN DIEGO CITY SCHOOLS, San Diego, CA 7/92-1/93

  • 124,000 student K-12 district
  • Superintendent Intern

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MILWAUKEE 1990-1991

  • Center for Teacher Education, Introduction to Teaching
  • Instructor

MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY 1989-1990

  • Lecturer, Special Topics in Education-- Chapter 220: Can We Make It Work

MILWAUKEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS

  • Human Relations Coordinator 1987-1989
  • Personnel Analyst- School Aides 1979-1987

ARCHDIOCESE OF MILWAUKEE

  • Office for Black Catholic Concerns
  • Executive Director 1983-1987
  • Middle School Teacher 1975-1978

WOMAN TO WOMAN, INC. MILWAUKEE, WI 1981-1983

  • President and Conference Chair

Community Involvement

  • Board of Trustees-TERC, Cambridge, MA
  • Board of Trustees-Engaging Schools, Cambridge, MA
  • Member of Soul of Leadership, Reflective Practice Group, Cambridge, MA