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Campus: Wheeling
Email: Paula.Bloom@nl.edu
Phone: 847.947.5055
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Biography
Paula Jorde Bloom holds a joint appointment as the Michael W. Louis Endowed Chair of the McCormick Tribune Center for Early Childhood Leadership at NLU and professor in the Department of Early Childhood Education at NLU. Bloom has taught preschool and kindergarten, designed and directed a child care center and served as administrator of a campus laboratory school. She is a frequent keynote speaker at state, national and international early childhood conferences and serves as consultant to professional organizations and state agencies.Education
Master's and doctorate from Stanford UniversityPublications
Avoiding Burnout
A Great Place to Work
Blueprint for Action: Achieving Center-Based Change Through Staff Development
Circle of Influence: Implementing Shared Decision Making Workshop Essentials
Making the Most of Meetings: A Practical Guide
Leadership in Action: How Effective Directors Get Things Done
From the Inside Out: The Power of Reflection and Self-Awareness T
he Program Administration Scale
Presentations
Aim4Excellence: An Online Director Credential. Presentation at the 53rd World Assembly of ICET, 2008, Braga, Portugal
The Paradoxes of Leadership. Keynote address, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Director’s Conference, Charlotte, North Carolina, 2008
What’s New in Director Credentialing and Leadership Training? National Association for the Education of Young Children, New Orleans, 2008
Leadership: Defining the Elusive, Keynote address, Vermont/New Hampshire Directors’ Conference, Morey Lake, Vermont, 2008
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