Joseph F. Murphy

Joseph F. Murphy is the Frank W. Mayborn Chair and associate dean at Peabody College of Education at Vanderbilt University. He has also been a faculty member at the University of Illinois and The Ohio State University, where he was the William Ray Flesher Professor of Education. In the public schools, he has served as an administrator at the school, district, and state levels, including an appointment as the executive assistant to the chief deputy superintendent of public instruction in California. His most recent appointment was as the founding president of the Ohio Principals Leadership Academy. At the university level, he has served as department chair and associate dean.

He is past vice president of the American Educational Research Association and was the founding chair of the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC). He is co-editor of the AERA Handbook on Educational Administration (1999) and editor of the National Society for the Study of Education (NSSE) yearbook, The Educational Leadership Challenge (2002).

His work is in the area of school improvement, with special emphasis on leadership and policy. He has authored or co-authored 18 books in this area and edited another 12. His most recent authored volumes include Understanding and Assessing the Charter School Movement (2002), Leadership for Literacy: Research-Based Practice, PreK-3 (2003), Connecting Teacher Leadership and School Improvement (2005), Preparing School Leaders: Defining a Research and Action Agenda (2006), and Turning Around Failing Schools: Lessons From the Organizational Sciences.\

Books

Caring in Crisis

Stories to Inspire and Guide School Leaders

By: Mark A. Smylie and Joseph F. Murphy

Stories of Caring School Leadership

By: Mark A. Smylie, Joseph F. Murphy and Karen Seashore Louis

Caring School Leadership

By: Mark A. Smylie, Joseph F. Murphy and Karen Seashore Louis

Professional Standards for Educational Leaders

The Empirical, Moral, and Experiential Foundations

By: Joseph F. Murphy

Understanding Schooling Through the Eyes of Students

By: Joseph F. Murphy

Creating Instructional Capacity

A Framework for Creating Academic Press

By: Joseph F. Murphy

Creating Productive Cultures in Schools

For Students, Teachers, and Parents

By: Joseph F. Murphy and Daniela Torre

Leadership for Literacy

Research-Based Practice, PreK-3

By: Joseph F. Murphy

The Architecture of School Improvement

Lessons Learned

By: Joseph F. Murphy

Essential Lessons for School Leaders

By: Joseph F. Murphy

Homeschooling in America

Capturing and Assessing the Movement

By: Joseph F. Murphy

Homelessness Comes to School

By: Joseph F. Murphy and Kerri Tobin

The Educator's Handbook for Understanding and Closing Achievement Gaps

By: Joseph F. Murphy

Turning Around Failing Schools

Leadership Lessons From the Organizational Sciences

By: Joseph F. Murphy and Coby V. Meyers

Connecting Teacher Leadership and School Improvement

By: Joseph F. Murphy

Leadership Lessons from Comprehensive School Reforms

By: Joseph F. Murphy and Amanda Datnow

The Productive High School

Creating Personalized Academic Communities

By: Joseph F. Murphy, Lynn G. Beck, Marilyn Crawford, Amy Hodges and Charis McGaughy

Educational Administration

A Decade of Reform

By: Joseph F. Murphy and Patrick B. Forsyth

The Four Imperatives of a Successful School

By: Lynn G. Beck and Joseph F. Murphy

The Privatization of Schooling

A Powerful Way to Change Schools and Enhance Learning

By: Joseph F. Murphy

School-Based Management as School Reform

Taking Stock

By: Joseph F. Murphy and Lynn G. Beck

Ethics in Educational Leadership Programs

An Expanding Role

By: Lynn G. Beck and Joseph F. Murphy

Reshaping the Principalship

Insights From Transformational Reform Efforts

By: Joseph F. Murphy and Karen Seashore Louis

Restructuring Schooling

By: Joseph F. Murphy and Philip Hallinger

The Landscape of Leadership Preparation

Reframing the Education of School Administrators

By: Joseph F. Murphy