College of Education
Educational Organization & Leadership
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Faculty Research Profiles: Donald G. Hackmann
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Associate Professor and Interim Head
Educational Organization & Leadership
330 Education Building
1310 S. 6th St. MC 708
Research Biography
My primary research agenda relates to educational leadership preparation programming. Interests within this strand include: characteristics of tenure-line and clinical faculty; standards-based program design and delivery, modeled after the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium Standards for School Leaders; the quality of clinical experiences in administrator preparation programming; and assessments of student performance, including students' use of evaluation portfolios.
An additional research agenda centers on the principalship, focusing on effective leadership strategies at the middle and high school levels that facilitate improved student learning. This research strand addresses how school leaders promote comprehensive building-based reforms in the following areas: the role of constructivist theory in improving teaching and learning in middle level and high schools, school scheduling models and their efficacy in supporting effective teaching-learning practices, the role of supervision and evaulation models in improving student learning, and middle level education programs and practices that are effective in improving student achievement. Leadership practices that support constructivist principles and encourage active student involvement in learning include such topics as school scheduling models, student-led conferencing, changing instructional methods, and faculty involvement in instructional reforms. My research into school scheduling approaches, and in particular the utilization of block-of-time scheduling, has led me to promote the pedagogical interrelationships between effective scheduling models and constructivist learning practices.
Degrees
- Doctor of Education, General School Administration and Supervision, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 1983
- Ed Specialist, Educational Administration, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 1981
- Master of Arts, Secondary School Administration, Truman State University, Kirksville, MO, 1977
- BS/BSE, Mathematics and Mathematics Education, Truman State University, Kirksville, MO, 1976
Key Professional Appointments
- Interim Head and Associate Professor, Educational Organization and Leadership, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2007--
- Associate Professor and Program Coordinator, Educational Organization and Leadership, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2004-2007
- Associate Professor, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Iowa State University, 2001-2004
- Assistant Professor, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Iowa State University, 1998-2001
- Assistant Professor, Educational Administration and Foundations, Illinois State University, 1996-1997
- Assistant Professor, Leadership and Counseling, Eastern Michigan University, 1993-1996
Activities & Honors
- Faculty Fellows Award, Faculty Fellows Award, College of Education, 2007-2008
- List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students, List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students (Sp06, Su06, F06, Sp07), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005-2007
Grants
- Senior Personnel, Entrepreneurial Leadership in STEM Teaching & Learning (EnLiST), National Science Foundation, 2009
- Principal Investigator, Revision of "Introduction to the Evaluation of Certified Staff", Illinois State Board of Education, 2008
- Senior Personnel, Mathematics Science Partnership: Sense-Making in Science and Mathematics, Illinois State Board of Education, 2007
Selected Publications
- Hackmann, D. G., & Wanat, C. L. (2008). The role of the educational leadership program coordinator: A distributed leadership perspective. International Journal of Educational Reform, 17(1), 64-88.
- Hackmann, D. G., & Wanat, C. L. (2007). Licensing principals: Iowa's preparation reform initiative. Journal of Research on Leadership Education, 2(3).
- Hackmann, D. G. (2007). Roles and responsibilities of clinical faculty in selected educational leadership programs. Planning and Changing, 38, 17-34.
- Schutte, T. J., & Hackmann, D. G. (2006). Licensed, but not leading: Issues influencing individuals' pursuit of the secondary principalship. Journal of School Leadership, 16, 438-466.
- Hackmann, D. G., Wanat, C. L., & Walker, J. M. (2006). A professional learning community at work: Developing a standards-based principal preparation program. Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 9(3), 39-53.
