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Dr. Adamson, like many of the graduate students she teaches, is a career changer into education, having worked in systems analysis and computer programming in government and industry. She taught elementary grades in a variety of settings in Maryland and was selected as the state’s Teacher of the Year and a Milken Family Foundation National Educator in 1994. She began working with Professional Development Schools (intensive partnerships between university teacher education programs and schools) as a teacher and has extended that work to her career at JHU. She has served in several capacities in the Maryland Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, including as the organization’s president. In her life beyond JHU, Dr. Adamson volunteers as the education coordinator of a long-term partnership between an Annapolis, MD, church and a small group of rural Mayan villages in Guatemala. Her primary research interest is action research/data-informed instruction. Current initiatives include effective technology integration to support 21st Century teaching and learning, and exploring opportunities to expand School of Education programs and influence nationally and internationally.

To contact Ms. Adamson, call 410-516-9775 or email her at adamson@jhu.edu

Faculty CV

Education

Doctor of Education (Teacher Development and Leadership), Johns Hopkins University School of Education, 2008

Master of Arts in Teaching (Elementary), Johns Hopkins University School of Continuing Studies, 1991

Bachelor of Arts (major: French), University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 1971

Professional Experience

Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator (School Immersion Master of Arts in Teaching), Department of Teacher Preparation, JHU School of Education: July 2008 to present

Instructor and Cohort Coordinator (School Immersion Master of Arts in Teaching), Department of Teacher Preparation, JHU School of Education: August 1998 to July 2008

Scholarly/Research Interests

Action Research, Data-Informed Instruction

School Improvement

Current Activities - Grants/Sponsored Research/Partnership Activities

Professional Development School (PDS) Coordinator for active partnerships with selected elementary schools, Howard County, MD

Actively establishing new PDS partnerships with feeder system (high school, middle school, two elementary schools) in Anne Arundel County, MD

Workgroup participant to plan for a Stimulus Fund grant application from School of Education (PI: Dr. Michael Rosenberg)

Other:

Past President, Maryland ASCD (term as President ends June 30, 2009), and other positions in the affiliate

Member, Johns Hopkins University Chapter of Phi Delta Kappan

Volunteer Coordinator of Education in ongoing partnership with select group of rural Mayan communities (St. Anne’s Episcopal Church)

Selected Publications

Adamson, L. & Carran, D. (2006, April). Invited reviewer of Creating Dynamic Schools through Mentoring, Coaching, and Collaboration in Mentoring and Tutoring.