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Professional appointment: Director of Educational Leadership Laboratory and Invited Researcher at Blas Pascal University (ARG)
Professional profile: Director of Educational Leadership Laboratory (UBP LAB-LE) and Invited Researcher at Blas Pascal University (ARG). President and Founder of the Civil Association Educational Strategies (ACEE). Specialized consultant in Educational Leadership, school innovation and improvement.
Researcher with a predominantly quantitative approach. ISLT and ISSPP Researcher. Postdoctoral Researcher (U. Alcalá de Henares - OEI Program). Member of the Research Training Working Group at Argentinian Society of Educational Research (SAIE) and the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Developer of the AI Assistant for Principals (LiderIA) and information systems (Finalist of the Reimagine Education Awards - QS Wharton 2021 for the development of the SMILe (GEMA) school alert information system).
Former consultant and project coordinator for UNICEF, UNESCO-REDETIS, and the National Ministry of Education in Argentina, among other institutions. Former Professor of Research Methodology and Applied Statistics at the School of Education (National University of Córdoba), with a CONICOR research training scholarship. Independent consultant (CABJ, Aresco).
Comprehensive training in Education. Professor and Bachelor of Science in Education from the National University of Córdoba (Second Highest GPA in the Faculty), Master in Education from the University of San Andrés (Esther Iglesias-F. Luminis Scholarship), and Ph.D. from the Autonomous University of Madrid (Cum Laude). Postgraduate degrees in Applied Statistics (FCE-UNC) and Governance and Political Management (UDESA-GWU).
Areas of scholarship
Research
Research Training Grant 1993-1997 under CONICOR (Research Commission of the Province of Córdoba (ARG)).
Teaching assistant professor of Educational Research Methodology and Applied Statistics at the School of Education of the National University of Córdoba between 1992 and 1997.
Doctoral thesis.
Lusquiños, C. (2021). School leadership and learning outcomes in elementary schools. Doctoral dissertation. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Spain.
Quantitative research with multilevel analysis. Supervisor: Dr. Javier Murillo.
Training of Principals in Leadership Practices:
Coordinator of the Educational Management Program for Learning Improvement (GEMA, by its Spanish acronym), with comprehensive support from UNICEF Argentina. This hybrid training program for principals in leadership, organizational, and school management practices was implemented from 2012 to 2017 in four Argentine provinces (Corrientes, Chaco, Jujuy, and Salta). It was approved by 1,483 directors in charge of 1,368 primary and secondary schools attended by approximately 469,000 children and adolescents.
Developer of SMILE (GEMA) ALERT, an early alert system that empowers principals with real-time, actionable data on student performance and key risk factors like non-attendance and over-age, enabling timely intervention. Approach was selected as an innovation for presentation at:
UNESCO Mobile Learning Week 2013. Paris, February 2013.
UNICEF Education Team Highlights. New York, April 2013.
UNESCO - ITU (2015). The State of the Broadband. GEMA Alerta is recognized for leveraging Information and Communication Technology to contribute to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (UNMDGs) (Pg.61).
Reimagine Education Awards - QS Wharton 2021 - Finalist.
Teaching foci:
Educational leadership and learning
School innovation and improvement
Data analysis and decision making
Research methodology and practice
Introduction to applied statistics
Selected publications:
Lusquiños, C. (2019). Prácticas de Liderazgo distribuido y Mejora Escolar. Evaluación de un ciclo de capacitación de directores. Profesorado, Revista de Currículum y Formación Del Profesorado, 23(2), 131–151. https://doi.org/10.30827/profesorado.v23i2.9298
Lusquinos, C. (2023). Principals´ leadership practices and student achievement in challenging elementary schools. 2023 Annual Meeting "Interrogating Consequential Education Research in Pursuit of Truth," American Educational Research Association. May 4–5. http://www.aera.net/repository https://doi.org/10.3102/2014182
Lusquiños, C. (2025). Liderazgo escolar. Evolución conceptual, supuestos y vacancias. Revista Saberes Educativos, 14, 1–27. https://doi.org/10.5354/2452-5014.2025.77654
Education:
PhD, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (ES); MEd, Universidad de San Andrés (ARG); BA/Lic., Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (ARG).
Email address: clusquinos@ubp.edu.ar clusquinos@estrategiaseducativas.org
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