Mark Smylie

Background

About Mark Smylie

Mark A. Smylie is professor emeritus in the Department of Educational Policy Studies in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). Smylie’s research and teaching focus on school organization and processes of school organizational improvement, administrative and teacher leadership and development, and equity-oriented educational leadership. His work has appeared in the American Education Research Journal, Educational Researcher, Educational Administration Quarterly, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Educational Policy, Journal of School Leadership, and Review of Research in Education. He contributed chapters to numerous books on school leadership and administration, teachers and teaching, and educational change. Most recently, Smylie has written about continuous school improvement and co-authored a set of three books on caring in school leadership. Smylie has been chair of the Educational Policy Studies Department in the College of Education at UIC and secretary-treasurer of the National Society for the Study of Education. He also served as a Director of the Consortium on Chicago School Research at the University of Chicago and Visiting Professor in Leadership, Policy, and Organization at Peabody College, Vanderbilt University. Smylie has been awarded a National Academy of Education Postdoctoral Fellowship, the William J. Davis Award from the University Council for Educational Administration, and the American Educational Research Association’s Research Review Award. He has been a Residential Fellow at the Spencer Foundation. Smylie has consulted with numerous regional and national professional and policy organizations concerned with education. He contributed to the development of the 2015 Professional Standards for School Leadership and has worked with state departments of education and professional associations to bring those standards to life in the preparation and work of school leaders. He has maintained a close relationship with schools and school districts through joint projects and professional development activity. Smylie received his PhD degree from Peabody College, Vanderbilt University and BA and MEd degrees from Duke University. Before his work in higher education, Smylie was a high school history teacher.