James P. Spillane

James P. Spillane, PhD, 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 chair of the Human Development and Social Policy program, professor of Learning Sciences, professor of Management and Organizations, and a 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. He is author of Standards Deviation: How Local Schools Misunderstand Policy (Harvard University Press, 2004), Distributed Leadership (Jossey-Bass, 2006), Distributed Leadership in Practice (Teachers College Press, 2007), Diagnosis and Design for School Improvement (Teachers College Press, 2011) as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters.