Helen M. Hazi

Professor
Educational Leadership Studies

West Virginia University
509 Allen Hall, PO Box 6122
Morgantown, WV 26506
304-293-3707, x1429

e-mail:Helen.Hazi@mail.wvu.edu

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Welcome to my website! Please browse through my website for information about advising, course syllabi, and research.

Advising

Welcome to Doctoral Students
What is doctoral study?
Dissertation Advising
Comprehensive Advice
Selecting a Dissertation Topic
On Writing
Getting it Down on Paper
Joining a Dissertation Support Group
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Welcome Master's Student
General Advice
Requesting a Reference
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Degrees

Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh, 1980
Major: Curriculum and Supervision
M.Ed., University of Pittsburgh, 1975
Major: Curriculum and Supervision
B.A., University of Pittsburgh, 1971
Major: Secondary Education - English, Minor: History


Personal

VITA
Philosophy of teaching, research, and service


Courses Taught

EDLS 601 Public School Organization and Administration
EDLS 602 Human Resources Dynamics
EDLS 611 Principles of Supervision
EDLS 612 School Law
EDLS 613 Planning, Research, and Evaluation for School Leaders
EDLS 614 Community and Media Relations
EDLS 701 Advanced Supervision
EDLS 625 Topics in Supervision
EDLS 693 Special Topics in Supervision, Law-Policy-Politics, Peer Coaching, Qualitative Research, Staff Development, Andragogy, Law & the Clinical Psychologist, Law & the Special Educator, Law & Title IX, and Action Research

Research Interests

  • Tracking and interpreting the laws in 50 states having consequence for instructional supervision, i.e., teacher observation, curriculum, and staff development.
  • Interpretive case studies of the impact of legal mandates on supervisory practice in various states to explicate concepts, identify lessons, construct arguments, raise questions for further research, and write scenarios for the future
  • Critical incidents of practice associated with certification, rights, testing, development, and evaluation of professional personnel and school reform
  • Following selected reform aspects of the WV school finance case, Pauley V. Bailey, more commonly known as the "Recht decision".

Recent Scholarly Efforts

  • Richard, M.P., William R., & Hazi, H.M. (2000). Handbook of West Virginia School Law (6th ed.). Morgantown, West Virginia
  • Hazi, H.M.(1998). Policy and legal considerations in supervision. In G.R. Firth & E.F. Park (Eds.), Handbook of Research on School Supervision. New York: MacMillan
  • Hazi, H.M. (1997). Should there be national standards in the preparation of supervisors? In J. Glanz & R. Nelville (Eds.), Educational supervision: Perspectives, issues, and controversies, (pp. 187-196). Norwood, MA: Christopher-Gordon

Selected Presentations

  • The Case of Linda Greenshields: The Price of Conformity in an Age of Standards at the annual meeting of the Council of Professors of Instructional Supervision, Wilmington, November 2003.
  • The Status of Supervisory Certification in the 50 states: Trends and Projections at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, April 2002
  • O Teaching and Learning, Where Art Thou? Questions About the Place of Supervision in Leadership Preparation at the annual meeting of the American Education Research Association, New Orleans, April 2002
  • Supervision Traveling Incognito: Scholars in Search of Audiences in a Post-modern Age at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Seattle, April 2001

 

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