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Christopher H. Tienken, Ed.D
Christopher Tienken, Ed.D. is an associate professor of leadership, management, and policy and education consultant. He has public school administration experience as a PK-12 assistant superintendent, middle school principal, director of curriculum and instruction, and elementary school assistant principal. He began his career in education as an elementary school teacher. Tienken is currently the editor of the American Association of School Administrators Journal of Scholarship and Practice and the Kappa Delta Pi Record.
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Blog
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Education Study Tours and Sabbatical Wri
Monday, April 28th, 2025Join us in Rome or Sicily for an exclusive small-group Education Leader Study Tour or Sabbatical Writing Retreat! Discounts available. CLICK HERE or contact us today for more information. christienken@gmail.com
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New Research Reviewed in Forbes Magazine
Saturday, March 2nd, 2024Great to see my latest article with co-author Jamil Maroun on predicting Algebra 1 standardized test scores picked up by @Forbes magazine: https://lnkd.in/epB3W953 Standardized tests are not measuring student learning or their potential to learn. The results can be predicted …
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Support More Teaching and Less Testing
Wednesday, May 17th, 2023Christopher Tienken and Julie Borst Large-scale annual standardized testing has been federal public school policy for over 20 years. During that time billions of dollars of taxpayer monies have been spent to design, purchase, administer, and score the various tests …
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Academic Redlining
Thursday, May 4th, 2023Findings from AASA’s “The American Superintendent: 2020 Decennial Study” suggest that superintendents are more often the ones leading discussions about educational equity in their school communities. But educational equity also was found to be one of tasks that superintendents engaged in the …
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Shelving Standardized Tests
Sunday, February 14th, 2021In previous writings I detailed some of the issues associated with using results from state standardized tests and most other commercial standardized testing products to draw conclusions about student learning, teacher effectiveness, and the overall quality of schools. In this …
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Publications
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Cracking the Code of Education Reform: Creative Compliance and Ethical Leadership
Christopher Tienken, professor and international speaker, shares his insights on how to identify both positive and negative aspects of education reform to maximize the benefits for students. This book introduces a practical framework for interpreting educational reform within an evidence-based …
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The School Reform Landscape Reloaded: More Fear, Myths, and Lies
The School Reform Landscape Reloaded: More Fear, Myths, and Lies peels back the curtain of school reform to examine the tensions that exist between the democratic and equitable system of public education and the emerging dual system based on elite interests aimed at profit-making and decreasing education equity.
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