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Jacqueline Ancess
ancess@tc.columbia.edu
212-678-4193

Dr. Ancess' research has focused on urban school reform, small schools, performance assessment, and accountability. During Jackie's more than 20 years in the New York City school system, she taught English in the South Bronx, became founding director of Manhattan East, a small junior high school in District 4, and was Director of Option Schools in Districts 2 and 3, where she was responsible for big school restructuring and small schools development. Her efforts at Manhattan East were awarded with the New York Alliance for the Arts Schools & Culture Award.

Selected Publications

“Snapshots of Meaning Making Classrooms.” Jacqueline Ancess. Educational Leadership (September 2004).

Beating the Odds: High School as Communities of Commitment. Jacqueline Ancess. New York: Teachers College Press. (2003).

"The Reciprocal Influence of Teacher Learning, Teaching Practice, School Restructuring, and Student Learning Outcomes," Jacqueline Ancess. Teachers College Record, June. (2000).

Inching Toward Reform in New York City. Creating New Schools: How Small Schools Are Changing American Education. Jaqueline Ancess and Linda Darling-Hammond. New York: Teachers College Press. (2000).

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Thomas Hatch
hatch@tc.columbia.edu
212-678-4087

Dr. Thomas Hatch's  research focuses on teacher learning as well as issues of large-scale school reform. He is also involved in a variety of efforts to use multimedia and the Internet to document teaching and share teachers’ expertise. He previously served as a Senior Scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching where he Co-Directed the K–12 Program of the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CASTL) and the Knowledge Media Laboratory. At Teachers College, he teaches courses on School Change and Research on Teaching.

Selected Publications

Going Public with our Teaching. Tom Hatch. New York: Teachers College (2005).

"Crafting coherence: How schools strategically manage multiple, external demands." (PDF) Thomas Hatch & Meredith Honig.  Educational Researcher. 33 (8), 16-30. (2004).

"The 'Long Haul' or 'Boom or Bust'?"
Thomas Hatch. Education Week 23 (2): 32, 35. (2003).

"It Takes Capacity to Build Capacity,"
Thomas Hatch. Education Week 20, no. 22: 44, 47. (February 14, 2001).

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