Jason Huff

Supporting Principals

In his time as a doctoral student in the K-12 Education Policy program, Jason Huff has focused his research interests on the development of programs to measure and enhance the effectiveness school principals.

"I've been evaluating a principal professional development program for the past three years, and the experience has been great, not only for the work and collaboration with a number of great professors, but also because of the opportunity to take a close look at the impacts of efforts to equip principals for their jobs. I've been working with my advisor, Ellen Goldring, on a new grant that examines how principals use feedback from their teachers to improve their practices."

"I've volunteered with PLAN (Principal Leadership Academy of Nashville) for the past year to help provide Metro Nashville principals with better analytical and data-based decision-making skills. This has been one of the most interesting pieces for me recently because it allows me to work with practitioners who daily deal with so many of the issues we are trying to understand from a research perspective."

"I came to education from the corporate world because it seems to me that there are so many basic challenges and needs that people face, and a decent education is one of them. My teaching and research are all part of my effort to help address some of those needs."

Jason Huff

• Ph.D., K-12 Leadership
• Undergraduate Institution: B.A., Stanford; M.A. Seattle University
• Hometown: Seattle, WA
• Career Goal: Build a school principal training program
• Favorite Thing to Do in Nashville: Mountain biking the Hamilton Creek trails at Percy Priest Lake