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TRICIA BROWNE-FERRIGNO,Ph.D., University of Colorado at Denver

Dr. Tricia Browne-Ferrigno(vita in PDF) is an associate professor who joined the faculty in August 2001 as a first-year assistant professor. She earned a PhD in Educational Leadership and Innovation from the University of Colorado at Denver, MA in Special Education/Gifted from the University of South Florida, and BA in Secondary Mathematics Education from Florida State University. Dr. Browne-Ferrigno’s current research foci include preservice and continuing leadership preparation, educational reform and school improvement, faculty mentoring in higher education, and the education doctorate. She has also investigated teacher quality, gifted underachievement, and mathematics education issues.

In addition to her regular responsibilities, she directed two sponsored projects. The Principals Excellence Program, an advanced professional development initiative for administrator-certified educators in Pike County (Kentucky), was supported by a grant from the US Department of Education School Leadership Development Program and is featured in Innovative Pathways to School Leadership and the e-Lead initiative. The Team Development for Instructional Leadership project, an initiative to improve student learning in rural high schools, was supported by a grant from the US Department of Education Teacher Quality Program administered by the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education.

Dr. Browne-Ferrigno is currently serving a three-year term as Chair of the AERA Learning and Teaching in Educational Leadership SIG. She is a founding member of the UCEA/LTEL-SIG Taskforce on Evaluating Educational Leadership Preparation Programs and a contributor to several SREB School Leadership Curriculum Modules. She is a member of the Editorial Review Board for the Journal of Research on Leadership Education, peer reviewer for the Leadership and Policy in Schools, and Teacher Development, and former Associate Editor for Educational Administration Quarterly.

Prior to entering higher education, Dr. Browne-Ferrigno was a teacher leader in secondary mathematics and gifted education at H. B. Plant High School in Tampa, Florida, a twice-recognized US Department of Education Blue Ribbon School of Excellence. From 1991 to 1993 she served as the National Consultant Secondary Mathematics for ScottForesman, providing support for the adoption and implementation of the University of Chicago School Mathematics Project (UCSMP) textbook series.

Courses taught include:
EDL 601, Introduction to School Leadership and Administration
EDL 610, Educational Leadership Practicum
EDL 650, Leadership for School Program Improvement
EDL 651, Foundations of Inquiry
EDL 701, Leadership in Educational Organizations I
EDL 702, Leadership in Educational Organizations II
EDL 770, Clinical Practicum in Elementary School
EDL 792, Research in Educational Administration and Supervision