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Diane C. Brown

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Senior Research Associate
dbrown@researchforaction.org
Diane Brown is a thirty-year veteran educator, recently retired from the Philadelphia School District. She has extensive experience at RFA with youth action research programs – as the Director of RFA’s Sisters Together in Action Research (STAR), a leadership and literacy development program for low-income, adolescent girls of color (1998-2004) and as the Team Leader of RFA’s Action Research Camp, a summer program for teaching action research skills (2004-2005). She is currently co-team leader of the RFA evaluation team for the Annenberg-funded Pennsylvania High School Coaching Initiative now completing its first of three years in eleven districts and 26 schools across Pennsylvania. This program is focusing on the impact of strongly supported coaching with a literacy-rich curriculum on improving teaching and learning. Diane's professional interests are many, but she has an expertise and special interest in the issues surrounding middle-grade adolescent girls of color. Her dissertation for her doctoral work at Lehigh University was titled: Testifying on our own behalf: African American girls at a racially isolated middle school. Diane has been an instructor and adjunct faculty member in education at Bryn Mawr/Haverford Education Program, the Philadelphia Education Fund, and the University of Pennsylvania among others.

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Educational Background:

Ed.D.: Lehigh University
M.Ed.: Lehigh University, Educational Leadership
M.A.: St. John's College
B.S.: Cheney University, Secondary English



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