Dr. Terrance L. Green is an associate professor of Educational Leadership and Policy and Planning. With over a decade of experience at UT Austin, Dr. Green's research and teaching focus on promoting racial justice and equity in educational systems. His work addresses critical issues such as school closures, gentrification and its impact on schooling, and conducting comprehensive school and community-based equity audits.
Dr. Green's research has been widely published in top-tier academic journals including American Educational Research Journal, Educational Researcher, Teachers College Record, Educational Administration Quarterly, and Urban Education.
In addition, Dr. Green's research has been nationally recognized, and he has received several prestigious awards and grant funding to support his work. He is a William T. Grant Scholar (2020-2025), and in 2018 was awarded one of thirty National Academy of Education (NAEd) Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowships. In 2017, Dr. Green received the Early Career Award from the American Educational Research Association's (AERA) Division A (which focuses on Administration, Organization, and Leadership). In 2016, he was the recipient of the William J. Davis Award for the most outstanding article published in a volume of Educational Administration Quarterly, which is the top journal in the field of educational leadership and administration. Dr. Green's research has been funded by the Spencer Foundation and the William T. Grant Foundation.
Dr. Green has written several opinion editorials on key education topics that have been featured in a variety of popular press venues such as: TIME.com, Psychology Today, The Houston Chronicle, Dallas Morning News, Austin American Statesman, Texas Tribune, Detroit Free Press and the McAllen Monitor.
Dr. Green earned a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a B.S. in Biology Education from Kentucky State University, a Historically Black College & University (HBCU). Prior to earning his doctorate, he was a high school science teacher.
Check out some of Dr. Green's work below:
College of Education Video
Op-ed: [link:http://time.com/4446768/back-to-school-questions/TIME.com
Op-ed: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/Why-Texas-school-districts-should-rethink-13476262.php
Op-ed: What it will take to truly desegregate Detroit schools
https://www.fox7austin.com/video/610239
Ph.D.
in Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis, University of Wisconsin, Madison
M.S.Ed.
in Educational Leadership, The University of Kentucky
B.S.
in Biology Education, Kentucky State University
Examines principals and school-community engagement/community development and issues of educational equity and opportunity.
Green, T. (2018). Enriching educational leadership practice through community equity literacy: A conceptual foundation.. Leadership & Policy in Schools, 17(4), 487-515. https://tinyurl.com/52ezd5x3.
Green & Rodgers, T. & M.. (2018). Exploring the preliminary development of the community equity literacy assessment (CELLA) for principals.. Journal of Educational Administration, 57(1), 36-49.
Green, T. (2017). Community-based equity audits: A practical approach for school and community leaders in supporting equitable school-community improvements.. Educational Administration Quarterly, 53(1), 3-39. https://tinyurl.com/36jxpzud.
Green, T. (2017). We Felt They Took the Heart Out of the Community: Examining a Community-Based Response to Urban School Closure. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 25(21), 1-30. http://epaa.asu.edu/ojs/article/view/2549.
Green, T. (2017). School as community, community as school: Examining principal leadership for urban school reform and community development. Education and Urban Society.
Green, T. (2017). Community-based equity audits: A practical approach for school and community leaders in supporting equitable school-community improvements. Educational Administration Quarterly.
Green, T. & Gooden, M. (2016). A Wrong Without A Remedy: 41 Years After Milliken v. Bradley I (1974) and Its Progeny in the Fight for Educational Equity. Teachers College Record, 118(3).
Gooden, M. & Green, T. (2016). Reflections on litigating Milliken I 40 years later: A conversation with the honorable judge Nathaniel Jones. Teachers College Record, 118(3).
Green, T. & Gooden, M. (2016). The shaping of policy: Exploring the context, contradictions, and contours of privilege in Milliken v. Bradley I and its progeny 40 years later. Teachers College Record, 118(3).
Green, T. (2016). From positivism to critical theory: School-community relations toward community equity literacy. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education.
Green, T. (2015). Leading for urban school reform and community development. Educational Administration Quarterly. doi:.
Green, T. (2015). Places of inequality, places of possibility: Mapping opportunity in Geography across urban school-communities. The Urban Review, 47(4). doi:.
Dantley, M. & Green, T. (2015). Problematizing notions of leadership for social justice: Reclaiming social justice through a radical, prophetic, and historical imagination. Journal of School Leadership, 25(5), 820-837.
Green, T. & Gooden, M. (2014). Transforming out-of-school challenges into opportunities: Community schools reform in the urban Midwest. Urban Education, 49(4), 930-954.
Green, T. & Dantley, M. (2013). The great white hope?: Examining the white privilege and epistemology of an urban high school principal. Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 16(2), 82-92.
William T. Grant Scholar
- William T. Grant Scholars Program (2020 - 2025)
National Academy of Education (NAEd) Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowships
- National Academy of Education (NAEd) and Spencer Foundation (2018 - 2020)
Early Career Award
- American Educational Research Association (AERA), Division A (2017 - 2017)
William Davis Award
- University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA) (2016 - 2016)
Finalist, Outstanding Dissertation Award
- American Educational Research Association, Division A: Administration, Organization, and Leadership (2013 - 2013)
Honorable Mention
- Ford Dissertation Fellowship (2012)
David Clark Scholar
- University Council for Educational Administration (2012)
Barbara Jackson Scholar
- University Council for Educational Administration (2011 - 2012)
