Faculty in the Department of Educational Leadership, Cambridge, Mass
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Terrence Boylan, Senior Instructor Ed.D., Boston University
Dr. Boylan as been a member of the Cambridge College faculty since 2003 and currently teaches in the CAGS program. Throughout his career as an educator, he has been a classroom teacher, school principal, director of early childhood education, and consultant. Some of his accomplishments include developing programs in special education and giftedness, and introducing a number of grants and innovative programs to meet the many challenges in the schools. Dr. Boylan works with a non-profit program dealing with diverse disabilities of young and older adults. He is responsible for developing, staffing and teaching many of the programs. Additionally, he has a career coaching practice and is involved with a number of community programs in the Arts.
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Sandra D. Bridwell, Professor
Dr. Bridwell comes to Cambridge College from post-doctoral studies at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and Graduate School of Education. She is a recipient of the 2006 College Medal and is Professor and co-founding faculty of the doctoral program in educational leadership, in which she teaches and advises doctoral students. Her work focuses on issues of social justice for women and under-represented populations. She serves on the Board of Trustees for the Boston Women’s Fund and is an evaluator for the Harvard Ash Institute Innovations in State and Local Government Award. Her research interests include adult learning and development, transformational learning, school leadership, and literacy. She is author of a forthcoming publication Making Adult Development Theory More Inclusive: a Marginalized Learner’s Epistemological Perspective.
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Joseph Buckley, Senior Instructor
Dr. Buckley is Principal/Partner of Edclectics, LLC, a leadership consulting organization specializing in developing and sustaining leadership, culture building and change, diversity training, and educational executive searches. A retired superintendent of Bedford Public Schools, he currently works with the Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents (MASS) to provide coaching and mentoring services to new school superintendents.
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Kathleen Buckley, Senior Instructor
Dr. Buckley spent 33 years in public schools as a teacher, principal and assistant superintendent. She has also worked in distance learning as the project director of the Massachusetts Corporation for Educational Telecommunications’ (MCET) U.S. Department of Education Star Schools research grant. This $9.5 million dollar grant, one of thirteen in the country, examined the role of technology in the development of literacy skills. She has served as a union president and co-chair of the Board of Advisors at the Principals’ Center at Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is also a member of the advisory board for the National Center for School Leadership at Harvard. Dr. Buckley also consults with a number of school systems in the areas of teacher leadership, administrator development, the change process, mentoring and peer coaching.
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Dan W. Butin, Associate Professor
Dr. Butin is assistant dean of Cambridge College’s school of education. He is the editor of Service-Learning in Higher Education (2005, Palgrave) and Teaching Social Foundations of Education (2005, Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers), and author, most recently, of Rethinking Service-Learning: Embracing the Scholarship of Engagement within Higher Education (forthcoming, Stylus). Dr. Butin is an editorial board member of the journal Educational Studies. His research focuses on issues of educator preparation and policy and community-based models of teaching, learning, and research. More about Dr. Butin’s teaching and research can be found at http://danbutin.org/
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David Flynn, Senior Instructor
Dr. Flynn is the Director of the Commission on Public Elementary and Middle Schools for the New England Association of Schools and Colleges. During the ten years of this directorship, Dr. Flynn has worked with elementary and middle schools throughout the six state region to develop a comprehensive, internally initiated self study, prepare the school for an external peer review process and develop a five year follow-up action plan. He has also worked with international schools in a wide range of overseas countries. Dr. Flynn has also served the educational community for 30 years as a teacher of English, assistant principal and principal in Framingham, Mendon-Upton, Bellingham and Marlborough and school superintendent for thirteen years in the city of Marlborough.
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James Horn, Associate Professor
Dr. Horn comes to Cambridge College with over three decades of experience as a K-12 educator and professor of social foundations and research. He has served as a high school English teacher, librarian, director of media services, and assistant professor of education before his current appointment as Associate Professor in the EdD program at Cambridge. He holds licensure as a classroom teacher, librarian, and school administrator. He took his PhD in 1995 and has since published book chapters in refereed volumes, as well as articles and reviews in venues ranging from academic journals to practitioner newsletters. His theoretical research agenda focuses on understanding complexity in educational systems, and his applied research ranges from exploring teacher renewal to understanding the effects of high stakes testing in urban school settings. He is strongly committed to renewing the democratic purposes of public education, and he advocates for the social justice mission of schools here and abroad.
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John Kerrigan, Senior Instructor
Dr. Kerrigan has worked over 35 years in the field of education, as a as a middle school science teacher, an elementary school counselor, team facilitator in special education, director of special services, and most recently as assistant superintendent of schools. He held this position for eight years focusing on all aspects of school leadership and management. He now teaches and advises in the CAGS program in Cambridge and through NITE and consults to school districts in the areas of mentoring school administrators and program evaluation.
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Kathleen Lynch, Senior Instructor and Dissertation Chair
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Stephen Maio, Associate Professor
Dr. Maio worked in public education for 41 years as a teacher, counselor, principal and superintendent of schools. As superintendent, he served for 22 years in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, while teaching courses in educational administration at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. Now retired from public education, he teaches and advises dissertations in the doctoral program at Cambridge College.
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Patricia Martin, Senior Instructor
Dr. Martin serves as the Superintendent of Schools on a part-time basis in the rural town of Petersham, Massachusetts. She is also involved in a leadership role in technology initiatives for the Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents.
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Fernando Padro, Associate Professor
Dr. Padro specializes in quantitative research methods, accreditation and quality management, and higher education. He is the author of the book, Statistical Handbook on the Social Safety Net ,and over two dozen peer-reviewed articles. Dr. Padro is an associate editor of the International Journal of Learning, Secretary for the American Society for Quality’s Education Division, and a member of a working group of the New Jersey Higher Education Commission. Dr. Padro has held positions of Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at Monmouth University, Chief Administrative Officer of USCI Advisors, and the Director of Continuing Education at Hibbing Community College.
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Kemoh Salia-Bao, Associate Professor Ed.D., Harvard University During his 30 year career, Dr. Salia-Bao has mentored hundreds of students at all levels. He has published over 15 books and authored numerous scholarly articles and technical publications for academic circles and for government and international agencies on a variety of topics, such as educational leadership, curriculum development, history of education, and teacher training. Dr. Salia-Bao has taught a wide range of courses, including education, psychology, philosophy of education, and curriculum theory and development. He has played a critical role in transforming educational systems of various countries from ground up, having served as the secretary of state for the Government of Sierra Leone and Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to Liberia. His consulting credits include work with Sierra Leone Institute of Education, Ford Foundation, University of Liberia, Science Education Programme for Africa, UNESCO Missions, and many others.
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