Dr. John J. Gallagher

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I joined the Longwood School District as Director of Music & Fine Arts in January, 2006, supervising art and music teachers k-12, and a secondary theater program.

In 2012 I began supervising Family & Consumer Science and Driver Education programs.

Other activities include serving as the district's liaison with our internal auditors as it pertains to student club activities and financial reporting and participating as a member of our district's Legislative Committee and School-Business Partnership.

Since 2002, I have sat on the Executive Council of the New York State School Music Association (NYSSMA) as its State Chairperson for Public Relations and Information, and - as of July, 2014 - have joined the Executive Board of the Suffolk County Music Educators Association (SCMEA) as Commercial Membership chairperson.

In 2012, I joined the University at Stony Brook as an adjunct faculty member in their school administration program.

I earned the Ed.D. in Educational Administration from Dowling College in 2007. My research focused on advocacy for music education.
What is your present job title?
Director, University Faculty
At what school level do you work?
K-12, College/University
Where do you work?
Suffolk County NY

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  • Michael Keany

    Dear John:

     

    Welcome!  I'm so pleased you decided to join our School Leadership 2.0 community.  As you start to explore the site, and I hope you will, I feel confident that you will see its many benefits.  A good starting point might be the short video tutorials which you can find on the pull down menu on the home page.  Each highlights a special section of the community and provides clear instruction on how to participate.

     

    We are very eager to hear your comments and suggestions for improvements and enhancements.  School Leadership 2.0 will grow and flourish with the ideas of the members.

     

    Again, I am so pleased you have joined.  Now feel free to explore and contribute!

     

    Regards,

     

    Michael Keany

     

    Dec 17, 2010

  • Josh Arnold

    I am writing to folks who are listed on this forum in search of people who could do one or more of the following:

    1. Provide me with the colleges they attended earning graduate and post graduate certificates and or degrees. (this will help me build a profile of the set of all such institutions thereby allowing me to enhance my market research)

    2. People who would be interested in serving on a panel of experts to provide responses to situations and challenges in the game a colleague and I are developing for graduate school leadership and administration classes.

    3. People who would be willing to share ideas with us on experiences they have had in their capacity as an educational administrator

    4. People who can provide us with factual information about the graduate programs where they teach and discuss the project in greater detail.

    A quick overview of our project is this; Our project aims to use technology as a way of moving beyond the case study approach to coursework in graduate programs in educational leadership and administration. The serious game will be a web based product that would augment the work in classes like school law, school finance, leadership, community relations, school personnel, and a capstone class.  In one of the modes, the graduate students will select one of four of five characters each with a different leadership style.  At periodic intervals, they have to respond as their prediction of how the character they are monitoring will respond to the challenge, or conflict they face. Additionally, the graduate student will be prompted to respond to the same situations as how they would proceed. The feedback they get will be instant and will be compared with the findings of the "Panel of experts" and will be plotted along the lines of stakeholder groups that a high school principal's decisions impact.

    This is a long post but I hope you take the time to read it and respond and will connect me as a friend on this group.  I look forward to hearing from you.

    Best Regards

    Josh Arnold MS C.A.G.S. Ed

    Educational Consultant/Advocate for children with special needs.

    Mar 13, 2012