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Prof. James Spillane
Northwestern University
E. j-spillane@northwestern.edu

James P. Spillane is the Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Professor in Learning and
Organizational Change at the School of Education and Social Policy at
Northwestern University. He is also professor of Human Development and Social
Policy, professor of Learning Sciences, professor (by courtesy) of Management and
Organizations, and faculty associate at Northwestern’s Institute for Policy
Research. Spillane has published extensively on issues of education policy, policy
implementation, school reform, and school leadership. His work explores the
policy implementation process at the state, district, school, and classroom levels,
focusing on intergovernmental and policy-practice relations. He also studies
organizational leadership and change, conceptualizing organizational leadership as
a distributed practice. Recent projects include studies of relations between
organizational infrastructure and instructional advice-seeking in schools and the
socialization of new school principals. His work has been supported by the
National Science Foundation, Institute of Education Sciences, Spencer Foundation,
Sherwood Foundation and Carnegie Corporation of New York. He has authored

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