School of Education

Dr. Scribner is an Associate Professor and Director of Urban Educational Leadership & Policy Program. She focuses on critical approaches to and analyses of the ethics, culture and politics of urban educational leadership, particularly in communities serving Latinx students and families. Her teaching includes courses on school-community engagement, leadership ethics, organizational theory and critical policy analysis. She emplys critical qualitative methods in her research.Dr. Scribner also serves as the Executive Director of the Consortium for the Study of Leadership Ethics and Education, an international consortium and UCEA Center, composed of of scholars and practitioners dedicated to advancing and supporting research and teaching addressing ethics and values of educational leadership.

• PhD, Institutional Leadership & Policy Studies, 2006, University of California, Riverside
• MEd, Educational Administration, 1996, University of Texas, Austin
• BA, Art & American Studies, 1992, Temple University

• A653: Organizational Context of Education
• A672: Moral Dimensions of Leadership
• T750: Critical Policy Analysis (Special Topics)
• A510: School Community Relations
• A560: Political Perspectives in Education
• A500: Intro to Educational Leadership

• Organizational Leadership / Organizational Theory
• Urban School Leadership
• Latinx Parent Engagement
• Critical Policy Analysis

• Urban Educational Leadership
• Organizational Conditions of Schooling
• Leadership Ethics
• School-Community Partnerships/Engagement
• Latino/a/x Immigrant Family Engagement
• Education Policies affecting Immigrant Education
• Urban School Reform

• Fernández, E. and Scribner, SM.P. (2023). To whom are we accountable?: Exploring the tensions inherent within critical scholarship. In M. Young & S. Diem (Eds.) Handbook of Critical Approaches to Education Research. Routledge: New York
• Fernandez, E. & Scribner, S.M.P. (2022). “Siempre hay un apoyo”: Creating humanizing spaces amid an anti-immigrant climate through muxerista organizing. In K.C. Rodela & M. Bertrand (Eds.) Centering Youth, Family and Community in School Leadership. Routledge: New York
• Scribner, S.M.P., Fernandez, E., Corral, M. (2019). Mapping just borders of distributed leadership: Micropolitics of engaging undocumented Latinx organizing in an anti-immigrant climate. In E. Crawford-Rossi and L. Dorner (Eds.), Educational Leadership of Immigrants: Case Studies in Times of Change. Routledge
• Scribner, S. M.P., & Fernández, E. (2017). Organizational Politics of Parental Engagement: The Intersections of School Reform, Anti-Immigration Policies, and Latinx Parent Organizing. Educational Policy, 31(6), 895-920.
• Scribner, S.P. (2013). Beyond Bridging and Buffering: Dilemmas and Politics of School Partnerships. Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership. 16(3), 3-6.
• *Carpenter, B. Scribner, S. & Lindle, J.C.  (2016). The Political and Economic Context of Educational Leadership Preparation. In Young, M. & Crow, G. (Eds.), Handbook of Research on the Education of School Leaders.

Research Awards:

• Journal of Research on Leadership Education Best Article Award - UCEA - 2019

Teaching Awards:

• Bynum Mentoring Award - IUPUI - 2020
• Paula Silver Outstanding Case Award: Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership - UCEA- 2018

Service Awards:

• Outstanding Reviewer - Educational Administration Quarterly - 2011

• University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA)
• Sociology of Education Association (SEA)
• Politics of Educational Association (PEA)
• Center for the Study of Leadership Ethics in Education (CSLEE)
• American Education Research Association (AERA)