Staff
William Bozeman received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and currently serves as Professor of Educational Leadership and Doctoral Coordinator at the University of Central Florida. Prior to joining the faculty at UCF, he was Professor and Chair at The University of Iowa. His educational background includes experience as a high school principal and mathematics/physics teacher. In addition to experience in education, he has worked and consulted extensively in the areas of systems planning and design, educational technology, and program evaluation. Dr. Bozeman has published extensively in the areas of education, educational technology, and systems planning and design, including four books. He is co-author of Educational Technology: Best practices from America's Schools and Educational Technology: Best Practices from America's Schools (2nd edition). A former professional musician, Dr. Bozeman enjoys playing guitar, keyboards, and music synthesizers as well as collecting vintage guitars and visionary art, and restoring automobiles. (For additional please visit http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~bozeman/home.html)
Contact: bozeman@mail.ucf.edu
Gail Klein is Director of the Progress Energy-UCF Leadership Institute. She received the BS and MS degrees in Elementary Education from Indiana State University and the Ed.D. in Educational Leadership from Florida Atlantic University. Prior to becoming an administrator, Gail was a classroom teacher in Indiana and Orange County, Florida. Her leadership experiences in Orange County were both school-based and district-based. She served as Early Childhood Supervisor, Elementary Principal, Area Administrator, Director of Administrative Services and Senior Director of Elementary Education. For several years Gail was a reading consultant with schools in Florida, Oklahoma and North Carolina. She has also been an adjunct professor at UCF, Rollins College and Nova University. Gail enjoys travel, grandchildren, the Orlando Magic and a home in the North Carolina mountains.
Contact: gklein@mail.ucf.edu
Rosemarye (Rose) Taylor has a rich background that includes middle and high teaching as a reading, language arts, and Spanish teacher, as well as counselor. She also has served as a middle and high school administrator, and district level administrator in Georgia and in Florida. In private sector management she was Director of Professional Development for Scholastic, Inc., New York. Currently, she is Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.
Much of her success is due to conceptualizing, creating, and implementing fail-safe systems that work seamlessly to support improvements in student learning. As an example, Rose led research, design and implementation of the Orange County Literacy Program that has successfully impacted thousands of elementary, middle and high school students and teachers. The classroom concept designed with her leadership has been produced as a literacy intervention product for grades 4 and up by Scholastic, Inc. In Orange County Public Schools, Orlando, Florida she designed and implemented a curriculum system including curriculum, instruction, assessment and staff development supporting the notion that systems make the work of administrators and teachers easier. Through work with supporting the development and implementation of learning communities to advance student achievement principals have structure within which to empower the classroom teachers to make gains day by day, and a system for accountability.
At the University of Central Florida her specialty is instructional leadership. She has conducted research on leadership particularly as it relates to accountability. Presentations on this topic have been given at University Council of Educational Administration, American Association of Educational Research, American Association of School Administrators, International Reading Association, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, National Association of Secondary School Principals, and National Middle School Association conferences. Her articles have been published in Kappan, Educational Leadership, Middle School Journal, Schools in the Middle, American Secondary Education, AASA Professor, The National Staff Development Journal, Principal Leadership, The School Administrator, Kappa Delta Pi Record, Journal of Adolescent Literacy, and International Journal of Education Management. Two books, Literacy Leadership for Grades 5-12, published by ASCD, and Leading With Character to Improve Student Achievement, published by Character Development Publishers, reflect the commitment to all students learning more through leadership that creates ethical fail-safe systems. In 2004, Literacy Leadership Fieldbook will be released by ASCD. She serves as consultant on literacy, learning communities, curriculum system development, and leadership to schools, districts and professional organizations like Phi Delta Kappa, and ASCD, and with reform projects like The Galef Institute's.
Contact: rtaylor@mail.ucf.edu