Tammie Causey-Konaté

Tammie Causey-Konaté is a Project Director with SEDL's Education Systems Support (ESS) program. Dr. Causey-Konaté’s areas of interest include leadership, knowledge translation, and educational equity and social justice.

• Leadership: Dr. Causey-Konaté formerly served as assistant dean of education at Dillard University and associate professor and doctoral program coordinator for educational administration at the University of New Orleans. In these roles, she provided leadership, instruction, professional development, and mentoring for educational leaders at the state, national, and international level.
• Knowledge Translation: Dr. Causey-Konaté worked with K-12 educators and education leaders in Guinea, West Africa, using their own perspectives together with their critical examination of the country's existing K–12 pedagogy as a starting point for reconceptualizing the overarching goals and expectations of Guinean education to better address issues of educational equity and competence. She participated in developing and facilitating the professional learning activities related to informing curricular and instructional changes and their processes, and mapping the timeline and benchmarks for realizing and assessing knowledge translation outcomes over a 3-year period.
• Educational Equity and Social Justice: Dr. Causey-Konaté has provided professional development and technical assistance to educators in the areas of educational equity and social justice. More recently, her work has concentrated on issues relevant to educational equity and social justice in post-Katrina New Orleans.

Dr. Causey-Konaté has been a professional educator for 27 years. Prior to joining SEDL in 2013, Dr. Causey-Konaté worked at the University of New Orleans as a tenured associate professor in educational leadership and as the coordinator of the PhD program in educational administration. She was awarded the Milton Ferguson faculty award for outstanding teaching in 2010. From 2000 to 2005 she served as assistant professor, assistant dean, and NCATE coordinator in the Division of Educational and Psychological Studies at Dillard University in New Orleans. In 2005, she was awarded both the Distinguished Faculty Award for exemplary teaching and the Provost Extra Mile Award for her leadership. Prior to this, she taught English/language arts at the middle and high school level and supported novice teachers as a support director with Teach for America and as the director of clinical and field experiences at the University of New Orleans.

Dr. Causey-Konaté holds a BA in secondary English education, an MEd in curriculum and instruction, and a PhD in education administration from the University of New Orleans.