Dr Brenda Beatty (Faculty of Education, Monash)

Job title:	Senior Lecturer
Qualifications:	B.A., B.Ed., M.Ed. Ed.D. (O.I.S.E. University of Toronto)

Location:	Clayton, building 6, room 212
Phone:	+61 3 990 52840

Email:	Brenda.Beatty@Education.monash.edu.au Brenda.Beatty@Education.monash.edu.au
Fax:	+61 3 990 52779

Teaching commitment

Biography

Recently granted the prestigious award of Fellow of the Australian Council for Educational Leaders, Senior Lecturer Dr. Brenda Beatty directs the highly regarded Monash Master in School Leadership. Dr. Beatty teaches and conducts research on the emotions of leadership, leadership development, school improvement, creating collaborative cultures, organizational change and student sense of connectedness and belonging. She draws on many years of experience in the public secondary system in Ontario Canada, where she served as english, media and drama instructor, media coordinator, curriculum designer, professional development facilitator, and leadership developer. As a graduate researcher for Dr. Andy Hargreaves at OISE University of Toronto, a visiting scholar and an invited speaker, she has presented her work in China, Ireland, England, New Zealand, the United States, Canada and Australia. AFter almost three years at Texas State University, in the position of Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership Dr, Beatty joined the Faculty of Education at Monash University where she has been a senior lecturer since 2004. Dr. Beatty's doctoral dissertation Emotion Matters in Educational Leadership: Examining the Unexamined, won the Thomas B. Greenfield award for Canadian dissertation of the year in educational administration. Her work continues to blaze a trail toward new ways of seeing and being in leadership with an emphasis on authenticity and sustainability.

Research Interests

Inner Leadership On The Line - http://community.education.monash.edu.au/projects/ilol.html

Emotions of leadership, leading learning organizations, school improvement, reculturing schools, collaborative capabilities, online methodologies, the teacher leader relationship, smaller learning communities, student sense of belonging.

Thomas B. Greenfield 2002 Canadian Dissertation of the Year in Canada for Educational Administration, presented by the Canadian Association for Studies in Educational Administration (CASEA), Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Explored and applied an original emotional epistemologies theoretical framework in Masters and leadership preparation programs. Trusting Relationships and Emotional Epistemologies: A Foundational Leadership Issue (published journal article 2004)

context of a Smaller Learning Communities. Federal Grant funded project:Texas. 2003

Sense of Connectedness including validated constructs for Sense of Belonging, Trust, Obligation and Expected Learning. 2003

Pilot study of small group of educational leaders: Feeling like a Leader and Breaking the Silence on the Emotions of Educational Leadership. (Beatty, 1999, 2000).

Exploring and applying an emotional epistemologies theoretical framework in Masters and leadership preparation programs.

Confirmatory analysis of Emotional Epistemologies theoretical framework, further exploring its utility for leadership preparation programs and developing an instrument using cooperative inquiry with teacher/leader practitioner researchers.

Extension and application of doctoral research employing online methodology as support system for educational leaders in local - US and Australian - and international contexts.

Internal and external evaluation including researching challenges to success in the

Doctoral Dissertation: Emotion Matters in Educational Leadership: Examining the Unexamined. 2002.

Qualifying research paper: Teachers Leading Their Own Professional Growth: Self: directed professional growth, reflective collaboration and changes in perceptions of self and work in Secondary School Teachers. (Beatty, 2000).

Principal investigator: Examining the Baldrige approach in schools - project funded by the NCSI 2002 large suburban central Texas district.

Professional Associations

Community Service

Supervision

Masters and Doctoral students: the emotions of professional teaching practice; wounded leaders in the corporate sector; emotions of leadership, why teachers quit, how to lead school improvement, collaborative culture building, student sense of belonging as a corelate of achievement.

Editorial

Editorship of refereed journals Beatty, B. (2004) Special editions (2) on the emotions of educational leadership guest editor, School Leadership & Management. 24 (2 & 3).

Editorial Board of refereed journals Journal of Creativity in Mental Health, Hawthorn Press Inc.

Publications

Books: Beatty, B. & Riley, P. (Eds.) (in press). Human Leadership: Cases of Professional Dilemmas. Melbourne, AU: Victoria State School Department of Education and Early Childhood Development. Leithwood, K. & Beatty, B. (2008). Leading with Teachers Emotions in Mind. Corwin Sage. Beatty, B. & Gurr, D., (forthcoming). Mastering School Leadership: Case stories in leadership preparation and development in Victoria, Australia (working title). Melbourne, AU: Victoria State School Department of Education and Early Childhood Development.

Chapters: Beatty, B. (forthcoming). Developing School Administrators who can Lead with the Emotions in Mind: Making the Commitment to Connectedness. In Canadian Educational Leadership. Thomas Ryan (Ed.). Detselig Enterprises Ltd. Beatty, B. (proposed & accepted). Feeling the Future of School Leadership Preparation: Succession planning, principal wellbeing and the creation of collaborative cultures. (working title). In Australian educational leadership today: Issues and trends. Neil Cranston Ed., Australian Academic Press Brew, C. & Beatty, C. (forthcoming). Valuing the integrated self: Linking learning and wellbeing among students, teachers and leaders. In R. Toomey & T. Lovat (Eds.) Handbook of Values Education and Student Wellbeing: Springer Press, Dortrecht. Beatty, B. (2008) Theories of Learning. In International Handbook on the Preparation and Development of School Leaders. Gary Crow, Jacky Lumby, Petros Pashiardis (Eds). Erlbaum publishers. Beatty, B. (2005) Emotional Leadership . In The Essentials of Leadership, Brent Davies Ed., Jan 2005. Corwin Press in the USA/ Paul Chapman Publishing UK: Sage.

Refereed Journal Articles: Leithwood, K. & Beatty, B. & (2008). Leadership for Hot Climates. International Studies in Educational Administration: Journal of the Commonwealth of Council for Educational Administration and Management. Beatty, B. (2007a). Feeling the Future of School Leadership: Learning to lead with the emotions in mind. Leading and Managing. Volume 13, No. 2, pp. 44-65. Beatty, B. (2007b). Going through the emotions: Leadership that gets to the heart of school renewal. Australian Journal of Education. Vol. 51, No. 3, pp. 328-340. Dean, S., Beatty, B. & Brew, C. (2007). Creating Safe and Caring Learning Communities: Understanding School Based Development of Social Capital. ACEL 2007Yearbook Beatty, B. (2006). Becoming Emotionally Prepared for Leadership: Courage Counter-intuition and Commitment to Connectedness. International Journal of Knowledge Culture and Change. Volume 6. Beatty, B. & Brew, C. (2005). Developing an instrument to measure student sense of connectedness with school. Leading and Managing 11 (2) 103-118. Beatty, B. & Brew, C. (2004). Trusting Relationships and Emotional Epistemologies: a foundational leadership issue. School Leadership & Management 24 (2). Beatty, B. (2004). A book review of Breaking the Silence: Overcoming the problem of principal mistreatment of teachers J. Blase & J. Blase (2003) and The Wounded Leader, Ackerman & Maslin-Ostrowski (2002). Educational Administration Quarterly 40 (2) pp 296-312. Beatty, B. (2000). The Emotions of Educational Leadership: Breaking the Silence. International Journal of Leadership in Education, 3(4): 331-358. Beatty, B (2000). Teachers Leading Their Own Professional Growth: Self-directed reflection and collaboration and changes in perception of self and work in Secondary School Teachers. International Journal of In-Service Education, 26(1): 73-97.