Rebecca Lowenhaupt, Ph.D.
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Rebecca Lowenhaupt, Ph.D. 
Professor of Educational Leadership
Lynch School of Education, Boston College

Email:       [email protected]
Phone:     617-552-0216 
  
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 Updated: January, 2025

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My work focuses on educational leadership and policy, with an emphasis on the context of immigration. In addition to studying the everyday practice of school leadership, I study the implementation of school reform in the midst of shifting student demographics and a changing policy climate for Multilingual Learners (MLs). My collaborative research projects include the Instructional Leadership for Science Practices study and the PIECE project. I have also engaged in research-practice partnerships with districts in the Boston area. 

At Boston College, I teach courses about leadership, research and policy to master's and doctoral students. I have designed and taught classes about instructional leadership, qualitative research methods, and educational policy in practice.

​A former middle school teacher, I began my career in education at Nativity Preparatory School in Jamaica Plain. Since then, I have taught in  charter schools and Mayatan Bilingual School in Central America. I hold a bachelor’s degree in English and a master’s degree in school leadership from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. in educational leadership and policy analysis from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I also completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Northwestern University, where I worked on the Distributed Leadership Study with Dr. James P. Spillane.
Throughout my work, I seek opportunities to help educational leaders at school, district and state levels design meaningful, equitable educational opportunities for immigrant youth. 
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