As an educator, an administrator, and a researcher, Cheryl King, PhD, has dedicated her career to providing students—especially those from low-income families—with access to high-quality teaching and learning opportunities.
King directs several national projects that are working to improve outcomes for students in chronically underperforming schools. She currently leads a national effort to improve urban school principal preparation and training programs through evidence-based program self-assessment and redesign. She also leads a national professional learning community of 36 principal preparation program providers and principals from across the country who are engaged in program redesign as part of The Wallace Foundation’s Principal Pipeline Initiative.
Additionally, King supports education reform efforts in some of the largest urban school districts in the United States, including New York City Board of Education, Broward County Public Schools, Hillsborough County Public Schools, and Fort Worth Intermediate School District. Before joining EDC, she was chief academic officer for Providence Public Schools in Rhode Island and deputy superintendent for teaching and learning in two urban school districts in Michigan.
King received her BA from Aquinas College and her MA and PhD from Michigan State University. She is a graduate fellow of the Broad Urban Superintendents Academy, a Featherstone Scholar, and a graduate of Education Policy Fellowship Program and Leadership Michigan.
“More Principals Learn the Job in Real Schools”
Education Week, December 4, 2012
King, C. (2016). Quality measures for assessing principal preparation program quality (9th ed.) New York, NY: The Wallace Foundation.
King, C. (2014). Partnership effectiveness continuum. New York, NY: The Wallace Foundation.
Orr, M. T., King, C., & LaPointe, M. (2010). Districts developing leaders: Lessons on consumer actions and program approaches from eight urban districts. Newton, MA: Education Development Center, Inc.