Stacy Scott
Senior Lecturer
Dr. Stacy Scott is a senior lecturer in educational leadership & policy studies at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. His research focuses on innovation, intuition, equity, and storytelling, as well as bringing concerns of equity in education to light. His career has included being a middle school teacher, director of diversity, psychologist, coach consultant, and finally superintendent of schools. Dr. Scott’s first book and signature workshop was Making Equity Work. His subsequent works include The Confidence Project and Fearless Leadership.
Training for principals and superintendents has been a specialty for Dr. Scott in a variety of programs and cities across the country. He was part of Harvard’s Public Education Leadership Program and national training programs like the Center for Creative Leadership. Dr. Scott offered training series each year for the Aspiring Leadership Program for principals for the Philadelphia Public Schools. Dr. Scott ran extensive trainings for principals in districts such as Tustin Unified School District, Bering Strait School District, Milwaukee Public School District as well as Louisiana State Department of Education and other states and districts nationwide. He was a part of the Teachers21 team that developed Massachusetts’ first principal alternative certification program. He championed the equity and diversity components.
Dr. Scott’s work in shaping the nature of education and schools in Massachusetts and the nation began with his role as a member of the Massachusetts State Board of Education, appointed by Governor William Weld. Dr. Scott was one of two superintendents who were on Massachusetts’ task force that created the Principal Assessment for Licensure which dramatically changed the certification process for principals in Massachusetts.
Pronouns: he/him
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Education
EdD, Harvard Graduate School of Education
EdM, Harvard Graduate School of Education
BA, Harvard College
Courses
AP 662
AP 758
Research
Dr. Scott's research emerges from social cognitive developmental theory and practice. He has focused on leadership development, equity and diversity issues in support of education reform and capacity building of leaders in education. His mission is building equitable schools and districts supported by leaders with capacity to manage culture and equity challenges. The education technology solutions that Dr. Scott focuses on are intended to elevate local community challenges through projects for storytelling and social networking to match communities with entrepreneurial solutions locally and globally.
Spirit of Wonder Storytelling Project
The Spirit of Wonder Project seeks to share and analyze individual life narratives to foster relationships with and among communities and different cultures, to support connectivity and to develop community engagement.
The Spirit of Wonder seeks to revive storytelling and to popularize this approach of people connecting with themselves, each other, and their communities. In modern scientific research, storytelling has been proven to cure trauma, resolve conflicts, improve self-understanding, and raise self-esteem.
Beneficiaries of this project are BU researchers and the multiple communities that sign on to share their stories and unearth the challenges they face, individually and collectively. The project includes strategies for connecting community challenges with sources of solutions. Community projects in Brazil, China and United States are the first to be established.
Confidence Constellation Project
This project explores the elements of confidence that show up in all of our human endeavors. Research focuses on tutoring and educational experiences of a small group of students over a number of years in school and tutoring settings.
A data base of student progress in the development of confidence are measured on a continuum that articulates improvement on each scale. Phases of learning are measured by a cycle which measure student responses to challenges they encounter. A book documenting the research findings, concepts and recommendations for use in the classroom will be forthcoming in early 2019.
Intuition Project
Mapping the life long work of a leading practitioners in the area of intuition; creating a curriculum for K-12 on how to support the development of innovation and creativity through harnessing intuition; on line courses and in school programs are to be designed.
Selected Publications
Fearless Leadership
The Confidence Project
Making Equity Work
Selected Presentations