John Pijanowski, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership
Curriculum and Instruction
219B Graduate Education Building
Phone: 479-575-7019
FAX: 479-575-2492
jpijanow@uark.edu
Degrees:
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1999
M.S., Cornell University, 1997
B.A., Brown University, 1991
Teaching Areas:
Topics in Educational Research Public School Law
Effective Leadership School Finance
Leadership Ethics Psychology of Learning for Leaders
Research for School Leaders Advanced Legal and Fiscal Leadership
Research Interests:
Ethical Leadeship and Shool Finance
Professional Biography:
Dr. Pijanowski has authored or co-authored more than 25 publications, made 15 presentations at international and national conferences and directed grants totaling more than $1.5 million. His primary research interest is in ethics and school finance. He was recently invited to write a book, Professional Responsibility and Ethics for Educators that is currently under contract and due out in the late spring of 2010. Prior to joining the University of Arkansas faculty in 2007, Pijanowski worked with K-12 students as a teacher, school principal and regional summer school superintendent serving 21 school districts. He has also worked in higher education as an associate academic dean and a faculty member at both North Carolina State University and Cornell University. As associate dean, his primary charge was to build partnerships and leverage resources to aid economic development and build educational capacity in New York’s Southern Tier Region: a predominantly rural area covering seven counties in the northern most section of Appalachia. In addition to leading numerous work-force development initiatives and grant-funded projects, Pijanowski created and launched a partnership with 31 high schools to design and deliver teacher and staff development, dual credit programming, college transition activities and more than 100 online courses for high school students. During his tenure, this public school partnership program grew to become the largest and most comprehensive effort of its kind in the state of New York and was recognized nationally as an exemplary program.
Publications/Presentations:
Pijanowski, J. C., (2009). Assessing the Moral Domain in Educational Leadership. In F. Crampton & D. Thompson (Ed.) Fifth Annual UCEA Conference Proceedings: Convention 2008 Preparing Democratic Leaders for Quality Teaching and Student Success: A Time For Action
Hewitt, P. M., Pijanowski, J. C., & Denny, G. S. (2009, March). Why Teacher Leaders Don't Want to Be Principals: Evidence from Arkansas. Education Working Papers Archives.
Pijanowski, J. C., (2009). The Role of Learning Theory in Building Effective College Ethics Curricula. Journal of College and Character. 10(3).
Hewitt, P. & Pijanowski, J. C. (2009). A Study of Why Teacher-Leaders Don't Want to Be School Principals, and the Changes Needed to Motivate Them to Change Their Position. Paper presented at the American Association of School Administrators National Conference on Education February 19-21, 2009 in San Francisco, California.
Pijanowski, J. C., (2008). Assessing the Moral Domain in Educational Leadership. Paper presented at the 2008 University Council for Educational Administration Conference in Orlando, Florida.
Hewitt, P. & Pijanowski, J. C. (2008). Compensation as a motivator to become a school administrator: a study of the perceptions of Arkansas superintendents and identified teacher leaders. Paper presented at the National Council of Professors of Educational Administration Annual Conference July 29-August 1, 2008 in San Diego, California.
Hewitt, P. and Pijanowski, J. C. (2008). The Status of School Leadership in Arkansas. Invited plenary presentation at the 14th Annual Joint Conference of the American Association of Educational Administrators and the Arkansas School Boards Association on May 13th, 2008 in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Bitting, P., Brady, K., & Pijanowski, J. C. (2008). Maximizing the Economic Efficiency of State Lottery Dollars for Public Education: A Fiscal Analysis of Current State Lottery Models. Paper presented at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association in New York City.
Pijanowski, J. C. (2008). Implications of Micro-level School Finance Data for the Right to Education. Journal of Education Policy. Winter, 2008.
Brady, K. and Pijanowski, J. C. (2007). Maximizing State Lottery Dollars for Public Education: An Analysis of Current State Lottery Models. Journal of Educational Research & Policy Studies, 7(2).
Pijanowski, J. C. (2007). Defining Moral Leadership in Graduate Schools of Education. Journal of Leadership Education, 6(1).