Dr. Stacey Rutledge is a Professor in the Educational Leadership/Administration and Educational Policy and Evaluation programs in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies. She has a Master of Arts in Teaching social studies degree from Brown University and a Ph.D. in education from the University of Chicago. Her research focuses broadly on understanding how the work of administrators, teachers, guidance counselors, and students is nested within institutional and policy environments and how different approaches to school reform shape school practices and student outcomes. She also explores adolescent social media use. She is currently serving as department chair for ELPS.
Her research has been published in the American Educational Research Journal, American Journal of Education, Leadership and Policy in Schools, and Teacher College Record. She has been an author and co-editor on several volumes, including The Infrastructure of Accountability: Data Use and the Transformation of American Education (2013) and, in 2020, Steps to Schoolwide Success: Systemic Practices for Connecting Social Emotional and Academic Learning, both published by Harvard Education Press.
Between 2010 and 2022, Stacey served as a Project Investigator for the National Center for Scaling Up Effective High Schools (NCSU), a center that had as its purpose identifying the programs, policies and practices that make some urban high schools particularly effective and using continuous improvement approaches with these districts to scale these practices. Working with NCSU partners, Broward teachers and administrators scaled a joint academic and social emotional innovation called Personalization for Academic and Social Emotional Learning (PASL) in 52 BCPS middle and high schools. To find out more about PASL and its implementation, please see this American Education Research Journal article about PASL and Steps to Schoolwide Success: Systemic Practices for Connecting Social Emotional and Academic Learning. PASL has been found to improve student social emotional and academic outcomes. You can find more about the social emotional learning outcomes in this article in Studies in Educational Evaluation and the academic outcomes in this American Education Research Journal article.
She is currently serving as a project investigator on an IES-sponsored project examining Career and Technical Education: Career Development Opportunities in Florida’s Leon County Schools.
Dr. Rutledge was a high school social studies teacher before earning her doctorate. At FSU, she teaches Qualitative Methods courses, Instructional Leadership, Policy to Practice, as well as Applications of Policy in Schools, among others.