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After seven years of public school teaching while serving as an age-group and high school swimming coach, I pursued a doctorate in curriculum studies. I've been extremely pleased with this decision and feel fortunate to work at Â鶹´«Ã½, particularly given our Teaching, Learning and Curriculum Studies (TLC) School's commitment to advance the discipline of curriculum studies in our graduate programs.  I regularly teach three courses: Fundamentals of Curriculum, Curriculum Leadership, and Theory and Research in Curriculum.  I was coordinator of our TLC School's C&I Master's Degree (M.Ed.), Educational Specialist (Ed.S.) & Doctoral (Ph.D.) programs for 13 years, the co-coordinator of the EHHS College’s Teacher Leader Endorsement Program, and the co-creator and first co-editor of The Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy.  I am an active member in the Curriculum & Pedagogy Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies, the American Educational Research Association, and the Professors of Curriculum (POC) Honorary Society.  I am a past president of this honorary society, which has a venerable history of celebrating the discipline of curriculum studies.  My service work in these national and international professional organizations is closely linked to my scholarly interests, which focus on curriculum-based reflective inquiry and democratic leadership. I have authored, co-authored and co-edited five books on these topics, and two of these books are currently in their third editions. I have worked closely with a local Superintendent of Instruction on the creation of a web-based Curriculum Leadership Institute, and I am a member of a team that has received a large grant from the Ohio Department of Education to demonstrate the power of curriculum-based teacher leadership in inspiring and supporting meaningful educational reform.