Deborah A. Shanley, Ed. D.
Professor
Dean, School of Education

Room 2111 James
2900 Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11210
718-951- 5214
Fax:718-951- 4816
dshanley@brooklyn.cuny.edu

For 35 years, Deborah (“Deb”) Shanley has enjoyed a rich career serving a wide variety of stakeholders in public education. She earned a doctorate in 1982 in curriculum and instruction from Teachers College at Columbia and pursued research in the field of behavioral analysis. Prior to joining Brooklyn College as Dean of the School of Education , she served as Dean of The School of Liberal Arts and Education at CUNY/Medgar Evers College. Her work with multiple college and community constituencies earned her a Humanitarian Award from the CUNY Consortium for the Study of Disabilities and the Medgar Evers College Worker Education Program. Her current work focuses on creating collaborations and partnerships with New York City schools and cultural institutions as vehicles for extending teacher preparation beyond the walls of academia.  Known for her activist perspective on teacher education reform--and passion for improving teaching and learning in the public schools, Deb Shanley’s philosophy has been realized through her leadership in a wide network of national collaborative partnerships, including the National Network for Education Renewal (NNER), Council for Great City Schools (CGCS), Teachers for a New Era (TNE) and the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future (NCTAF). On the local level, Deb has established relationships with professional development schools, such as the Brooklyn College Academy and the Performing Arts and Technology High School in East New York, as well as numerous community  organizations, including the Lincoln Center Institute Teacher Education Collaborative, the National Park Service of New York Harbor and City University of New York Partnership, the American Museum of Natural History, and the East New York School and Community Partnership.  She also serves as board chair for Achievement First, a network of charter schools.

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