Aprille菲利普斯

Associate Professor

办公室: COE B150 | 电话: (308) 865-8361 | 电子邮件: phillipsa@veosonica.com

教育

PhD, University of 内布拉斯加州-Lincoln

Background

Dr. Phillips is a 内布拉斯加州 native, growing up in Hastings and joining the faculty of the University of 内布拉斯加州 at Kearney after years teaching and working in 教育 leadership and policy in the Dominican Republic, 内布拉斯加州, 和俄勒冈州.

She earned her bachelor’s degree in English and 教育 from Hastings College and completed her master’s degree and PhD at the University of 内布拉斯加州 at Lincoln. She has worked in higher 教育 since 2012, teaching courses at Metropolitan Community College and the University of 内布拉斯加州-Lincoln before becoming a full-time faculty member at Southern Oregon University in 2017. 在那里, she coordinated the principal and professional administrative licensure programs, served as the President of the Oregon Professors of 教育al 政府, and began an early career principal support network.

Dr. Phillips’s teaching centers on the cultivation of a learning community that applies research to real-world problems of practice. Her experiences teaching in the Dominican Republic, working with multilingual students, and collaborating with 教育 leaders and teachers on Tribal lands inform her work and pedagogical commitments to democratic 教育 and culturally responsive leadership.

Dr. Phillips’s research has come to have two overarching and interconnected themes: (a) how school reform is/is not responsive to minoritized learners and (b) policy as a sociocultural practice in its development and implementation across tiers (e.g., state departments of 教育 working with schools). Her master’s thesis won the prestigious, Folsom Distinguished Master’s Thesis Award at the University of 内布拉斯加州-Lincoln in 2012 and in 2019 she was named a Council on Anthropology and 教育 Concha Delgado Gaitán Presidential Fellow. Her publications include works that explore the role of 教育 consultants in neoliberal 教育 reform, space and place in 教育al anthropology, and state-directed reform efforts in Indian Country.

Outside of work, Dr. Phillips enjoys planning and taking cross-country road-trips, collecting stamps in her passport, sharing a good meal with good friends, tackling an ever-expanding list of projects on the house, and walking her dog Willa.