Matthew Militello

Faculty Member, Leadership, Policy, Adult and Higher Education

Assistant Professor

College of Education

Thesis Title: At the cliff's edge: Utilizing evidence of student achievement for instructional improvements

Advisors: Gary Sykes, Michigan State University
Maenette Benham, University of Hawaii

About

Matthew Militello is an assistant professor in the Leadership, Policy, and Adult and Higher Education Department at North Carolina State University. He held a similar position at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he was also the educational administration program coordinator. At both universities, he was involved in restructuring principal certification courses that included creating new course such as “Making sense of school data.”
Prior to his academic career, Militello was a middle and high public school teacher, assistant principal, and principal in Michigan. He received his undergraduate degree and teaching certification from the University of Michigan and his MEd (with principal certification) and PhD from Michigan State University.

His research focuses on developing principals’ knowledge and skills in the areas of school law, school data, and collective leadership. Militello has more than 30 publications including articles in Education Policy, Education and Urban Society, Harvard Educational Review, Journal of School Leadership, Leadership Quarterly, Principal Leadership, Journal of Research on Leadership Education, and Teachers College Record. Militello also co-authored two books: “Leading with inquiry and action: How principals improve teaching and learning” (2009, Crowin Press) and “Principals teaching the law: 10 legal lessons your teachers must know” (2010, Corwin Press).

Militello has received funding to conduct research from the College Board (national study of effective high poverty high schools), the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (statewide study on school data use), and Xian Normal University (study of school principals in Northwest China). He is currently an evaluator for a National Science Foundation (GK-12) grant and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s Kellogg Leadership for Community Change project (2002-present).

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