Ellen Goldring is the Patricia and Rodes Hart Professor of Education Policy and Leadership, and Executive Associate Dean, Peabody College of Education and Human Development, Vanderbilt University. Her research focuses on education policy and school improvement, with emphases on school and district leadership. A fellow of the American Educational Research Association, she is the recipient of the University Council for Educational Administration’s Roald F. Campbell Lifetime Achievement Award. She is the author of numerous books and hundreds of articles, including a co-author of The Vanderbilt Assessment of Leadership in Education (VALED). She currently serves as the editor-in-chief of the American Educational Research Journal.