Educational Background

• PhD, Educational Leadership & Policy Studies, Arizona State University
• MA, Bilingual Education, University of Connecticut
• BA, Spanish-Secondary Education, University of Connecticut

Teaching Profession
Courses regularly taught
• Supervision of Instruction
• Professional Development in Schools
• Politics of Education
• Curriculum Leadership

Current Research Interests

• Gender and politics in PreK-12 educational leadership
• Women and the superintendency

Selected Publications

• Tallerico, M. (2007). Three strategies for administrators to support school-based staff developers. Journal of Staff Development, 28(1), pp. 42-45.

•Tallerico, M.  (2007).  Career patterns in schools.  In B. Bank (Ed.), Gender and education: An encyclopedia.  Westport, CT: Praeger-Greenwood Press.
• Tallerico, M. (2005). Supporting and sustaining teachers’ professional development: A principal’s guide. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.
Penna, A., & Tallerico, M. (2005). Grade retention and school completion: Through students’ eyes. Journal of At-Risk Issues, 2 (1), 13-17.
• Tallerico, M., & Blount, J. (2004). Women and the superintendency: Insights from theory and history. Educational Administration Quarterly, 40(5), 633-662.
• Tallerico, M. & Burstyn, J. N. (2004). Politics and paradox: The case of an urban alternative school. Planning and Changing, 35(1 & 2), 33-54
• Theel, R., & Tallerico, M. (2004). Using portfolios for teacher hiring: Insights from school principals. Action in Teacher Education, 26 (1).
• Tallerico, M. (2003). Policy, structural, and school board influences on superintendent supply and demand. The Journal of School Leadership, 13 (3), 347-364.
• Tallerico, M. (2000). Gaining access to the superintendency: Headhunting, gender, and color. Educational Administration Quarterly, 36(1), 18-43.
• Tallerico, M. (2000). Accessing the superintendency: The unwritten rules. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press & the American Association of School Administrators.

Selected Recognitions

• Staff Development 2006 Book of the Year Award from the National Staff Development Council (2006, December)
• Davis Award for outstanding research article published in Educational Administration Quarterly, 2005
• Special Recognition Award for “extraordinary, careful, and thoughtful reviews” from the University Council for Educational Administration & the Educational Administration Quarterly, 2003 & 1999
• Award of Recognition for research, advocacy, and service, from the New York State Association for Women in Administration, 2001