CSI director receives Impact Award

Nancy Dana, director of the college’s Center for School Improvement, has received the second-ever National Impact Award from the New York State Association of Teacher Educators and the New York Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.

The first recipient, in 2005, was Marilyn Cochran-Smith, award-winning scholar and author in teacher education and past president of the American Educational Research Association.

Dana is nationally recognized for her research and experience in the field of teacher inquiry as an effective tool in school improvement. The inquiry process involves a collective networking approach to professional development for educators.

The Florida Association for Staff Development (FASD) previously honored Dana for her contributions to outstanding staff development practices, and she is the lead author of the bestseller, The Reflective Educator’s Guide to Classroom Research: Learning to Teach and Teaching to Learn Through Practitioner Inquiry, Second Edition (Corwin, 2009).