Joseph Cambone
Professional Title: Senior Associate Dean for Strategy and Innovation
Areas of Academic Focus and Expertise:
Special education, mental health services, education reform, educational policy, program development, research and evaluation.
Area of Work and Concentration at Lesley: Oversees program development and management; directs assessment and accreditation processes; oversees school centers and institutes
Representative List of Recent Courses Taught:
Curriculum Development for Children at Risk; Adolescent Psychology; Educational Foundations
Education: Ed.D., Harvard University; M.A., Boston College; B.A., Mount Saint Mary College
Representative List of Recent Publications / Exhibitions:
- Effective Teaching: Developing the Teaching Practice. SouthEast Education Network (SEEN) Magazine (November, 2012).
- Teachers and Teaching: Tipping the Balance, in Disrupting the School-to-Prison Pipeline, book by Harvard Educational Review (December 2012).
- Achieving Better Learning through Equity: The ABLE Guide Book.
Final report for the U.S. Department of Education. Newton, MA:
Educational Development Center, Inc., with Zambone, A., Howard, C., Elliott, K., Ramos, J., Moore, S.
(2002).
- Teaching troubled children: A case study in effective classroom practice. New York: Teachers College Press. 1994.
- Braided curriculum in the inclusive classroom. The Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Problems, Vol. 3, No. 2. pp. 41 - 44 (1994).
- Time for teachers in school restructuring. In R.J. Anson (Ed.), Systemic reform: Perspectives on personalizing education (pp. 47 - 78). Washington, D.C.: United States Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement (1994).
- Time for teachers in school restructuring. Teachers College Record, Vol. 96, No. 3. pp. 1 - 32 (1995).
- Inclusion of troubled children (Special issue). The Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Problems, Vol. 3, No. 2 (1994). Editor, with T. Latus.
- Principals, shared decision making, and school reform. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Vol. 16, No. 3. pp. 287 - 301. With C.H. Weiss (1994).
Dr. Cambone has served in many roles in his educational career. As a teacher, he has taught at the elementary and middle school levels, and at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. He has been a researcher for educational institutions that include the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a public school consultant at the Institute for Equity in Schools. Over his career at the Walker School, a school for children with serious emotional disturbance and learning disabilities, he taught, directed and coordinated educational services, among other roles, and served as associate executive director before joining the Lesley University Graduate School of Education as associate professor and associate dean in 2005.
His service to Lesley has included management of a major renovation to the school, oversight of the school's centers and institutes, supervision of administrative personnel, oversight of program development and new assessment tools, and, in collaboration with the dean, management of daily operations in Cambridge and over 100 teaching sites throughout the United States