Dr. Shirley M. Hord
Shirley Hord worked at SEDL from January 1986 through October, 2007. She was a Scholar Emerita with SEDL's School Improvement Program.
Experience/Education
Dr. Hord studied the change process in schools and colleges, as well as leadership factors required to initiate and manage change.
She is the editor of Learning Together, Leading Together recently published by Teachers College Press, co-author of
Moving NSDC's Staff Development Standards into Practice, co-author of Implementing Change: Patterns, Principles, and Potholes,
published by Allyn and Bacon, and lead author for Taking Charge of Change.
Dr. Hord received the 2004 NSDC Susan Loukes-Horsley award and is a recipient of the Rogers L. Barton Award conferred by
the President and CEO of SEDL for substantial contributions to SEDL's educational research and development efforts.
Before joining SEDL in 1986, she was a program co-director, an assistant program director, and a senior research associate at
the R&D Center for Teacher Education at the University of Texas at Austin; director of student teaching and faculty member
for UT Austin's Science Education Center; and an elementary school teacher.
She holds a BS in Elementary Education and History, an MEd in Curriculum and Instruction, and a PhD in Education Administration from the University of Texas at Austin.
Publications in SEDL Catalog
- Assessing a School Staff as a Community of Professional Learners: Issues About Change, Volume 7, Number 1 (1999)
- Board's Role in Educational Improvement, The: Issues About Change, Volume 3, Number 4 (1994)
- Correlates of Successful Implementation and School Change: An Annotated Bibliography (2000)
- Creating a Professional Learning Community: Cottonwood Creek School: Issues About Change, Volume 6, Number 2 (1998)
- Facilitative Leadership: The Imperative for Change (1992)
- Implementing Change: Patterns, Principles, and Potholes 2nd Edition (2005)
- Leadership for Changing Schools (2000)
- Leadership: An Imperative for Successful Change: Issues About Change, Volume 1, Number 2 (1991)
- Leading Professional Learning Communities: Voices from Research and Practice (2007)
- Learning Together, Leading Together: Changing Schools Through Professional Learning Communities (2004)
- Measuring Change Facilitator Stages of Concern: A Manual for Use of the CFSoC Questionnaire
- Measuring Implementation in Schools: Innovation Configurations (2006)
- Multiple Mirrors: Reflections on the Creation of Professional Learning Communities (2000)
- New Alliance of Superintendents and Principals: Applying the Research to Site-Based Decision-Making: Issues About Change, Volume 2, Number 1 (1992)
- Professional Learning Communities: Communities of Continuous Inquiry and Improvement (1997)
- Professional Learning Communities: What Are They and Why Are They Important?: Issues About Change, Volume 6, Number 1 (1997)
- Realizing School Improvement through Understanding the Change Process: Issues About Change, Volume 1, Number 1 (1990)
- Schools as Learning Communities: Issues About Change, Volume 4, Number 1 (1994)
- SEDL Letter, Volume XIX, Number 1: Developing a Staff of Learners (2007)
- Site-Based Decision-Making: Its Potential for Enhancing Learned Outcomes: Issues About Change, Volume 1, Number 4 (1991)
- Staff Development and Change Process: Cut from the Same Cloth: Issues About Change, Volume 4, Number 2 (1994)
- Students: How They View Learning and Their Schools: Issues About Change, Volume 5, Number 3 (1995)
- Taking Charge of Change (2005)
- Total Quality: A Missing Piece for Educational Improvement: Issues About Change, Volume 3, Number 3 (1994)
- Voices from the Field: Success in School Reform (2000)
- Will our Phones Go Dead? The Changing Role of the Central Office: Issues About Change, Volume 2, Number 4 (1993)