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Campus: Lisle
Email: ted.purinton@nl.edu
Phone: 630.874.4251
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Biography
Ted Purinton is chair and assistant professor in the Department of Educational Leadership at National-Louis University. He holds a doctorate in policy and administration from the University of Southern California. His experience includes program evaluation; district, school, and non-profit consulting; regional education laboratory research; school district program administration; and high school and middle school teaching (English).Dr. Purinton has won awards for his teaching, research, and community organizing; his dissertation won the Rossier School 2005 Dissertation of the Year award. At National-Louis, Dr. Purinton is Principal Investigator for the Illinois School Finance Adequacy Initiative.
Dr. Purinton teaches courses on professional development/organization theory, policy & politics, empirical research, collective bargaining, and educational finance. He has recently co-authored a book with Terry Deal and Daria Waetjen entitled Making Sense of Social Networks in Schools (Corwin Press). He is currently working on two new books. The first is entitled Six Degrees of School School Improvement: Why Schools Can't Be Fixed from Afar; this book is a sociological and network structure analysis of professional development policy and practice in American education. The second is entitled How Schools Engage the Social and Organizational Networks within Their Communities (co-authored with Terry Deal and Daria Waetjen).
Education
Doctorate in policy and administration from the University of Southern CaliforniaPublications
Deal, T.E., Purinton, T., & Waetjen, D. (2008). Making sense of social networks in schools. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.
Presentations
Various
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