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Apr 13, 2018 • Caitlin Burns
Dr. Marc Brasof, assistant professor of Education, hosted a panel on the environmental sustainability of schools on April 12. “Going Green: A Look at How Schools Are Becoming Green Spaces” examined the cost of our environmental footprint, what “green schools” are and how they operate, and what...
Mar 22, 2018 • Caitlin Burns
Dr. Marc Brasof, assistant professor of Education, was featured on March 15 in an Education Week article addressing the importance of a strong civics curriculum in high school classes, especially when discussing the Second Amendment. Brasof stressed the need to take current events and regional...
Mar 1, 2018 • Jen Retter
Arcadia’s Educational Leadership doctoral program will host “Undoing Pennsylvania's School Funding Crisis” on Thursday, March 29 from 7:30 to 10 p.m. in Landman Library’s Beaver College Room. Dr. Marc Brasof, assistant professor of Education, will facilitate a discussion on inequitable school...
Nov 15, 2017 • Caitlin Burns
Dr. Marc Brasof, assistant professor of Education and director of Secondary Social Studies and English Education, presented at the Pennsylvania Council for the Social Studies’ (PCSS) 64th annual statewide conference in Harrisburg on Oct. 20. Dr. Brasof, along with Education certificate students...
Oct 10, 2017 • Caitlin Burns
Dr. Marc Brasof, assistant professor of Education and coordinator of Secondary Social Studies and English Education, will lead a 9-session professional development series through Feb. 27 with teachers and leaders from the School District of Philadelphia. Dr. Brasof will work with middle and high...
Dec 19, 2016 • Caitlin Burns
Dr. Marc Brasof, assistant professor of Education, is collaborating with Youth Development Consultant Marc Fernandes to lead one of the largest youth-adult leadership initiatives in the country. Dr. Brasof will help reform student councils into youth-adult councils in the 200 high schools that are...
Oct 4, 2016 • Caitlin Burns
Dr. Marc Brasof, assistant professor of Education, recently published “An Abolition Framework: Debating Slavery by Moving Beyond the Question of Race” in the Pennsylvania Council for the Social Studies’ Social Studies Journal. In his article, Dr. Brasof offers a new method for teaching students...
Aug 23, 2016 • Caitlin Burns
Jean Courtney, leader of the student voice movement in Ontario, Canada who is a retired educator in the Ministry of Education, interviewed Dr. Marc Brasof, assistant professor of Education, about a lack of student voices in school policy and how this relates to teens being uninterested in civic...
May 29, 2016 • Caitlin Burns
At October’s Pennsylvania Council for Social Studies Conference in Harrisburg, Pa., students in the Social Studies Methods class showed that history lessons can be more than lectures. Aaron Bell ’17, Mark Crow ’16MEd, Evan Cunhan ’16, Simon Mohr ’16, and Mark Reitz ’16 showed teachers from around...
Feb 11, 2016 • Christopher Sarachilli
Student Voice and School Governance: Distributing Leadership to Youth and Adults, a book by School of Education Assistant Professor Dr. Marc Brasof, was reviewed in The Journal of Education Policy, Planning, and Administration in January. "Marc Brasof brings to this book a...
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Dr. Brasof's has taught for almost 20 years. Dr. Brasof was a founding faculty member and history/social studies teacher at Constitution High School, Pennsylvania's only history- and civic-themed public school. While earning a doctorate in educational leadership Temple University, he taught curriculum courses as a graduate student and then eventually at Arcadia University's School of Education in the doctoral educational leadership and teacher education programs.
Dr. Brasof has published scholarship examining secondary school improvement from the perspectives of student voice, distributed and democratic leadership, and civic and history education. Dr. Brasof authored the book Student Voice and School Governance: Distributing Leadership to Youth and Adults (2015) and is currently working on an upcoming co-edited volume on student voice research methods. Dr. Brasof was awarded Ellington Beavers Fund for Intellectual Inquiry in 2019 and Academic Affairs Innovative Implementation Grant for his work on starting the School of Education's Social Action and Justice Education Fellowship. Dr. Brasof is also the current Rosemary and Walter Blankley Endowed Chair.
Other Recent Publications
Lyons, L., Brasof, M. & Baron, C. (2020). “Measuring mechanisms of student voice: Development and validation of student leadership capacity building scales.” AERA Open.
Lyons, L. & Brasof, M. (2020) "Building the capacity for student leadership in high school: a review of organizational mechanisms from the field of student voice" Journal of Educational Administration.
Brasof, M. (2019). “Meeting the discipline challenge: Capacity-building youth-adult leadership.” Journal of Educational Change.
Brasof, M. & Mansfield, K. (Eds) (2018). Student voice and school leadership [Special issue]. Journal of Ethical Educational Leadership, March(1).
Brasof, M. (2018). “Teaching in the politically divisive climate.” Social Studies Journal 38(1), p. 30-46.
Brasof, M. & Peterson, K. (2018). “Creating Procedural Justice and Legitimate Authority within School Discipline Systems Through Youth Court.” Psychology in the Schools, 55(7), p. 1-18.
Brasof, M. & Mansfield, K. (Eds) (2018). Student voice and school leadership [Special issue]. Journal of Ethical Educational Leadership, March(1).
Brasof, M. (2018). “Using linkage theory to address the student voice organizational improvement paradox.” [Special issue] Journal of Ethical Educational Leadership, p. 44-65.
Brasof, M. & Spector, A. (2016) “Teach students about civics Through schoolwide governance.” Phi Delta Kappan 97 (7) p 63-8.
Boards, Fellowships, and Awards
Rosemary and Walter Blankley Endowed Chair 2019-22
Ellington Beavers Fund for Intellectual Inquiry Faculty Award (2019) Student Voice for School Improvement: Theory and Methods
National Constitution Center's Education Fellow (2010-16)
The Rendell Center for Civics and Civic Engagement Education Fellow, (2014-16)
Pennsylvania Council for Social Studies Board of Directors (2010-2020)
Social Studies Journal's Editorial Board
2015 Pennsylvania Association of School Administrators Excellence in Research
2012 Pennsylvania Council for Social Studies Outstanding Program of Excellence Award
2012 Pennsylvania Association of School Administrators Honorary Dissertation Research Fellowship
2011 Pennsylvania Council for Social Studies Outstanding Social Studies Project Award
2011 New Democratic Ethical Educational Leadership Award for Outstanding Contribution
2010 Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Pennsylvania’s American History Teacher of the Year
2009 Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Award for Distinguished High School Educators.
student voice, distributed leadership, civic education, organizational change
Temple University 2014
Ed.D, Major in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
University of Pennsylvania 2010
M. Ed, Major in Secondary Social Studies
University of Pittsburgh 2001
B.S.B.A., Major in Business/Marketing
Author • 2015
Book, Routledge
Author • 2011
Book, National Constituiton Center
Dr. Brasof’s teaching and research focuses on organizational leadership and teacher education. Dr. Brasof's praxis aims to foster more democracy in schools through an intersection of student voice, project-based learning, and school-community partnerships.