Tricia J. Stewart

Tricia J. Stewart , Ph.D., is a Professor in the Doctor of Education in Instructional Leadership in the Education and Educational Counseling Department at Western Connecticut State University. Her Doctor of Philosophy was earned in Educational Policy and Theory from the University of Rochester in Rochester, NY. She has extensive experience teaching diverse populations in doctoral education programs since 2009. Her research interests include Struggling School Districts: Urban and Rural, Educational Policy Studies: Accountability and Choice, and Social Class and Inequality in Education. Since arriving at WCSU, she has been granted four $10,000 grants through the CSUS-AAUP to study students in rural areas, Teaching During COVID-19, and other leadership topics. Stewart is also part of Connecticut State Department of Education funded grant for $300,000 with colleagues across Connecticut to study Pandemic Effects, including stress and supports, certification and supply/shortages. and educator mobility. She has numerous research articles published in top-tier research journals and she is committed to helping doctoral students gain publishing opportunities and has published three book chapters to this end.

Publications

Language and Leadership in the Midst of Social Unrest: A Critical Analysis of Educational Leaders' Responses to Racial Violence in the Era of the Pandemic
Language and Leadership in the Midst of Social Unrest: A Critical Analysis of Educational Leaders' Responses to Racial Violence in the Era of the Pandemic
Nicole G. DeRonck, Tricia J. Stewart, Samantha Gati-Tisi, Courtney Fragomeli. © 2023. 29 pages.
The civil unrest following the murder of George Floyd exerted a tremendous burden on educational institutions across the USA during the critical era of the global pandemic....