Michelle Turner Mangan

122 South Michigan Avenue michelle.mangan@nl.edu
Chicago, IL 60603
(312) 261-3924 phone/fax


Areas of Professional Expertise
School finance, quantitative research methods, K-12 mathematics & science evaluation, educational policy analysis and educational leadership.

1. Academic Degrees and Professional Preparation:
University of Wisconsin -Madison Doctor of Philosophy, Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis (Distributed Minor in Statistics) 2007
University of Pennsylvania Master of Science in Education,
Specialization in Psychological Services 2000
University of Illinois
(Urbana-Champaign) Bachelor of Science,
Major in Psychology 1999

2. Professional Experience

2.1 Employment History:
Assistant Professor National-Louis University (Chicago, IL) 2007-present
Consultant
Lawrence O. Picus and Associates, LLC
(North Hollywood, CA) 2005- 2008
Program Assistant
Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE) (Madison, WI) 2004 - 2007
Teaching Assistant University of Wisconsin (Madison, WI) 2003 – 2004
Evaluator/Program Associate Learning Point Associates (Naperville, IL) 2001 – 2005
Evaluator/Development Associate Research for Better Schools (Philadelphia, PA) 2000-2001
Children’s Outpatient Therapist/Adult Intake Supervisor Community Council for Mental Health and Mental Retardation (Philadelphia, PA) 1999-2001
Researcher on Truancy Project University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA) 1999-2000
Special Project Assistant with the Office of the Secretary U.S. Department of Education (Washington, DC) 1998
Researcher in the Infant Cognition Lab & Test Administrator at the Child Development Lab University of Illinois (Champaign, IL) 1996-1999

2.2 Courses Taught or Developed at NLU

Graduate:
EDL 601 School Financial Management
ESR 505 Educational Inquiry and Assessment (online)
ESR 514 Research in Action: Becoming Practitioner Researchers
ESR 612 Empirical/Analytic Research I
ESR 616 Empirical/Analytic Research II




3. Service to the Institution
Committee Member, Illinois School Funding Forum This involved securing panelists for our October 6th, 2007 event, creating the agenda, contributing to weekly hour-long conference calls, attending in-person meetings with the steering committee, and planning for next steps.
Principal Investigator, Illinois School Finance Adequacy Initiative I am conducting research and hosting policy taskforce meetings. I will also coordinate dissemination related to the research and taskforce. I will also continue to contribute to grant writing in order to secure outside funding for this project.
Committee Chair, Committee Member, and Dean’s Representative, EDL and Educational Psychology Dissertation Committees I have served on students’ committees in the Madison, Niles, and Elgin cohorts for EDL and Educational Psychology Departments. Currently I am serving as Chair of three committees and a member of five other students’ committees from the Elgin cohort, as well as a committee member for an Educational Psychology doctoral student.
Committee Member Senate Finance Committee (2008-2011)
Co-Chairperson Senate Faculty Welfare & Compensation Committee (2009-2012)
Committee Member GLBTQ Interest Group

4. Service to the Profession and Community
Researcher, Integrated Resource Information System (IRIS) project:
Assess and document current Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) capacity to track resource expenditures within finance, budget and human resources systems
Prototype MPS cost accounting framework
Assist in conducting gap analysis of current system capacity to measure IRIS indicators
Develop goals and strategies for addressing identified needs
Contribute formative and summative reports of work to date for annual reports and national conferences (AEFA and IES)

Chair/President American Educational Research Association, Fiscal Issues, Policy and Education Finance (FIPEP) Special Interest Group (SIG), 2009-2010
Secretary American Educational Research Association, Fiscal Issues, Policy and Education Finance (FIPEP) Special Interest Group (SIG), 2008-2009
Reviewer, Annual Conference Proposal Submissions American Educational Research Association, Division L, Section 2, 2006
Fiscal Issues, Policy and Education Finance (FIPEP) Special Interest Group (SIG), 2008
Student Member, Program Committee Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2005-2006
Student Member, Admissions Committee Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2006-2007

4.1 Consulting/Training/Workshops Conducted

June 20-21, 2008 University of Southern California Educational Leadership Doctoral Cohort Fieldwork Training Session
August 14-15, 2007 Fieldwork Training Session: Study of Wyoming School Resource Use & Instructional Improvement Strategies
January 12-13, 2007 Fieldwork Training Session: Study of Wyoming School Resource Use & Instructional Improvement Strategies
March 22, 2006 Washington Successful Districts Study Fieldwork Training
January 18, 2006 Arkansas School Uses of Resources Fieldwork Training

4.3 Presentations Given

Mangan, M. T. (2009, June). Integrated Resource Information System (IRIS):
Connecting Spending to Educational Strategies. Poster presentation at the Fourth Annual Institute of Education Sciences Research Conference, Washington, DC.

Mangan, M. T. (2009, April). How the Current Fiscal Crisis Has Impacted School Finance in Illinois. Presentation at the State of the States session, as part of the meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, California.

Mangan, M. T. (2009, March). Connecting Spending to Educational Strategies through an Integrated Resource Information System (IRIS), Presentation at the meeting of the American Education Finance Association, Nashville, Tennessee.

Mangan, M. T. (2008, April). How school leaders tie adequate resources to instructional improvement: Differences between high performing and low performing schools. Presentation at the meeting of the American Education Finance Association, Denver, Colorado.

Mangan, M. T., Odden, A., & Picus, L. O. (2008, March). School-level resource use in Arkansas. Presentation at the meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New York, New York.

Mangan, M. T. (2007, April). School-Level Resource Use in Arkansas. Presentation at the David L. Clark National Graduate Student Research Seminar, Chicago, Illinois.

Odden, A. R., Mangan, M. T., & Schell, T. (2007, March). Symposium: School Finance Adequacy, School Level Resource Use, and Doubling Performance. Presentation at the meeting of the American Education Finance Association, Baltimore, Maryland.

Picus, L. O., & Mangan, M. T. (2007, February). Insuring Better Use of School Finance Reform Dollars: Old Lessons from Kentucky, New Jersey, Texas and new Lessons from Arkansas and Wyoming. Presentation at the meeting of the Consortium for Policy and Research in Education, Chicago, Illinois.

Mangan, M. T. (2006, October). Educational policy decisions in Wisconsin: Key influences and use of research at the state level. Presentation for the Wisconsin-Spencer Lecture Series, Madison, Wisconsin.

Mangan, M. T. (2006, July). Washington Successful Districts Study. Presentation for the K-12 Advisory Committee of Washington Learns. Olympia, Washington.

Mangan, M. T. & Schell, T. (2006, April). Wisconsin K-12 Technology Use, Research, & Costs. Presentation to the Wisconsin Adequacy Task force, Madison, Wisconsin.

Archibald, S., Goetz, M., & Mangan, M. T. (2006, April). The cost of instructional improvement: Resource allocation in schools using comprehensive school reform strategies. Presentation at the meeting of the American Education Research Association, San Francisco, California.

Odden, A. R., Archibald, S., Goetz, M., & Mangan, M. T. (2006, March). Reporting expenditures by educational strategy at the school level. Presentation at the meeting of the American Education Finance Association, Denver, Colorado.

Blomeyer, R., Turner, M. A., & Tyska, C. (2003, April). Ohio Lesson Study: Taking an Alternative Route to Lesson Study in the U.S.A. Presentation at the meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, Illinois.

4.4 Publications

a. Books
Stepanek, J., Appel, G., Leong, M., Mangan, M. T., & Mitchell, M. (2007). Leading lesson study: A practical guide for teachers and facilitators. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.

c. Articles
Mangan, M. T., Odden, A., & Picus, L. O. (Forthcoming). School level resource use in Arkansas following an adequacy oriented school finance reform.
Odden, A. R., Goertz, M., Goetz, M., Archibald, S., Gross, B., Weiss, M., & Mangan, M. T. (2008). The cost of instructional improvement: Resource allocation in schools using comprehensive strategies to change classroom practice. Journal of Education Finance, 33(4), 381-405.

e. Other
Mangan, M. T., Iatarola, P., & Knoeppel, R. (2008, Summer). Newsletter. AERA Fiscal Issues, Policy, and Educational Finance Special Interest Group.

Mangan, M. T., Odden, A., Picus, L. O., & Gurgel, D. (2007). How school leaders tie adequate resources to instructional improvement: Differences between high performing and low performing schools. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin Center for Education Research, Consortium for Policy Research in Education.

Mangan, M. T. (2007). School-level resource use in Arkansas: A statewide study. Dissertation Abstracts International, 68(04). (UMI No. 3261451)

Odden, A. R., Picus, L. O., Archibald, S., Goetz, M., Mangan, M. T., & Aportela, A. (2006). Moving from good to great in Wisconsin: Funding schools adequately and doubling student performance. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin Center for Education Research, Consortium for Policy Research in Education.

Mangan, M. T. & Schell, T. (2006). State of K-12 technology in Wisconsin. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin Center for Education Research, Consortium for Policy Research in Education.

Fermanich, M., Mangan, M. T., Odden, A. R., Picus, L., Gross, B., & Rudo, Z. (2006). Washington Learns: Successful district study. (Prepared for the K-12 Advisory Committee of Washington Learns.) North Hollywood, CA: Lawrence O. Picus and Associates.

Odden, A. R., Picus, L. O., Goetz, M., Mangan, M. T., & Fermanich, M. (2006). An evidenced based approach to school finance adequacy in Washington. (Prepared for the K-12 Advisory Committee of Washington Learns.) North Hollywood, CA: Lawrence O. Picus and Associates.

4.7 Professional Associations
American Educational Research Association
American Education Finance Association