I work with Drs. Keith Butcher and Detra Johnson to understand what aspiring principals do and learn during the internships.

We have presented three papers at AERA and UCEA and have a new study on how aspiring leaders interact with students during their internships that we presented at the 2025 AERA annual meeting in Denver.

Paper 1: How the internship work of aspiring principals differs across program types.

Paper 2: How the internship routines of aspiring principals shifted during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Paper 3: How aspiring principals enact equity-oriented work during their internships.

My dissertation focused in part on principal turnover and its consequences for schools. Since then, I have continued to examine turnover and, more recently, am working on a project with Dr. Alison Wilson and Dr. Toni Templeton to describe who has become a school leader in the Houston Independent School District during the state takeover.