Richard R. Halverson is an Assistant Professor in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His work aims to bring the research methods and practices of the Learning Sciences to the world of educational leadership by exploring how to access, document, and communicate the practical wisdom of school leaders.

Halverson's research develops conceptual frameworks based on cognitive psychology and classical philosophy to capture the complexity, expertise, and situated nature of leadership practice and seeks to communicate research findings through developing online, multimedia cases of practice.

Halverson was a teacher and a school administrator in suburban Chicago, and has earned an MA in Philosophy and a PhD in the Learning Sciences from Northwestern University. He is a recent recipient of a National Science Foundation Early Career Award to investigate how school leaders work with teachers to create the capacity for using student achievement data in daily practices of teaching and learning.

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