Faculty & Staff
- Faculty
- Jack Gillette
- Linda Cole-Taylor
- Adjunct Faculty
- Karen Campe
- Nancy Close
- Nick Fiori
- Carla Horwitz
- Nancy Levy-Konesky
- Michele Raynor
- Burt Saxon
- Staff
- Kendra Mack
Jack Gillette
Director of Teacher Preparation and Education Studies
Core Faculty
Jack Gillette is the Director of the Teacher Preparation and Education Studies Program. He is also a Lecturer in Yale's Sociology Department, and has an appointment at the Child Study Center. Gillette co-designed the Masters in Urban Education Studies program and teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses.
He was previously the Director of Professional Development and Consultation for the School Development Program at the Yale Child Study Center, a national school reform model headed by Dr. James P. Comer, a child psychiatrist. His responsibilities included setting up and maintaining national training sites, coordinating national training offerings in New Haven, supporting consultation to the districts across the nation and delivering direct consultation to the Bay Area, Chula Vista, Tucson, Colorado Springs, Topeka, Cleveland, Detroit, New Orleans, Prince George's County and Westbury, Long Island.
He received his B.A. from Harvard, an M.A.T. from Wesleyan, and a Ph.D. in Administrative Science from Yale University in 1985. He has taught at the graduate and high school level. He was a teacher at Hillhouse High School and directed the Title VII and Title X Federally Funded Programs. He also taught graduate students at the Yale School of Management. He has worked as a consultant on a broad variety of issues from site-based management in public schools to race relations and factory restructuring. His writing and research focus on the nature of the task of teaching in context, group and organizational dynamics and school reform.
