Kristin Huggins

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Kristin Shawn Huggins studies educational leadership development. Her primary research interests include leadership coaching and equity-focused leadership practices for school improvement. Between 2009 and 2013, Dr. Huggins was an associate editor for Educational Administration Quarterly, and between 2011 and 2018, she was an associate editor for the Journal of Research on Leadership Education. She also has published on research-practice partnerships, STEM education, and professional communities as connected to educational leadership.

TEACHING AND PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS

At WSU, Dr. Huggins has primarily taught graduate courses in Adult Learning Theory, Educational Leadership Theory, and Instructional and Curricular Leadership. Since 2017, she has been the program coordinator for the WSU College of Education Ed.D. Program. Additionally, Dr. Huggins has been WSU’s Delegate for the Carnegie Project on the Doctorate since 2019 and Plenary Session Representative for the University Council for Educational Administration since 2014. She was on the American Educational Research Association’s Leadership for School Improvement Special Interest Group Executive Committee for five years, holding various offices: Dissertation of the Year Chair (2015-2016), Secretary/Treasurer (2016-2017), Program Chair (2017-2018), Chair (2018-2019), Immediate Past-Chair (2019-2020).

SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Huggins, K. S., Klar, H. W., & Andreoli, P. M.* (2021). “I thought I was prepared to do this”: An exploration of the learning and development of leadership coaches. International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching in Education, 10(4), 486-500. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJMCE-01-2021-0014

Klar, H. W., Huggins, K. S., & Andreoli, P. M.* (2021). Coaching, professional community, and continuous improvement: Rural school leader and coach development in a research-practice partnership. International Journal of Leadership in Education. Advanced online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/13603124.2020.1869311

Huggins, K. S., Klar, H. W., & Andreoli, P. M.* (2021). Facilitating leadership coach capacity for school leadership development: The intersection of structured community and experiential learning. Educational Administration Quarterly, 57(1), 82-112. https://doi.org/10.1177/0013161X20915948

Andreoli, P. M.*, Klar, H. W., Huggins, K. S., & Buskey, F. C. (2020). Learning to lead school improvement: An analysis of rural school leadership development. Journal of Educational Change, 21, 517-542. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10833-019-09357-z

Klar, H. W., & Huggins, K. S. (2020). Developing rural school leaders: Building capacity through transformative leadership coaching. Routledge.

Klar, H. W., Huggins, K. S., Andreoli, P. M.*, & Buskey, F. C. (2020). Developing rural school leaders through leadership coaching: A transformative approach. Leadership and Policy in Schools, 19(4), 539-559. https://doi.org/10.1080/15700763.2019.1585553

Klar, H. W., Huggins, K. S., Buskey, F. C., Desmangles, J. K.*, & Phelps-Ward, R. (2018). Developing social capital for collaboration in a research-practice partnership. Journal of Professional Capital and Community, 3(4), 287-305. https://doi.org/10.1108/JPCC-01-2018-0005

Kruse, S., Rodela, K., & Huggins, K. S. (2018). Messy messages and making sense across complex contexts: A regional network of superintendents confronting equity. Journal of School Leadership, 28(1), 82-109. https://doi.org/10.1177/105268461802800104

Huggins, K. S., Lesseig, K., & Rhodes, H.* (2017). Rethinking teacher leader development: A study of early career mathematics teachers. International Journal of Teacher Leadership, 8(2), 27-47. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1169799.pdf

Huggins, K. S., Klar, H. W., Hammonds, H. L.*, & Buskey, F. C. (2017). Developing leadership capacity in others: An examination of high school principals’ personal capacities for fostering leadership capacity. International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership, 12(1), 1-15. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1138597.pdf

Huggins, K. S., Klar, H. W., Hammonds, H. L.*, & Buskey, F. C. (2016). Supporting leadership development: An examination of high school principals’ efforts to develop leaders’ personal capacities. Journal of Research on Leadership Education, 11(2), 200-221. https://doi.org/10.1177/1942775116658636

Capraro, R. M., Capraro, M. M., Scheurich, J., Morgan, J., Jones, M., Huggins, K. S., Corlu, S. M., Younes, R., & Han, S. (2016). The impact of sustained professional development in STEM on outcome measures in a diverse urban district. The Journal of Education Research, 109(2), 181-196. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220671.2014.936997

Klar, H. W., Huggins, K. S., Hammonds, H. L.*, & Buskey, F. C. (2016). Fostering the capacity for distributed leadership: A post-heroic approach to leading school improvement. International Journal of Leadership Education, 19(2), 111-137. https://doi.org/10.1080/13603124.2015.1005028

*Indicates graduate student

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Ph.D., Educational Administration, Texas A&M University, 2010
M.Ed., Supervision, Curriculum, and Instruction, University of Oklahoma, 1998
B.S., Secondary Education (English), Oklahoma State University, 1995