Profile
Jacy Ippolito's research and teaching focus on the intersection of adolescent literacy, literacy coaching, teacher leadership, and school reform. Jacy is specifically interested in the roles that teacher leaders, principals, and literacy coaches play in helping institute and maintain instructional change at middle and high school levels. Jacy has taught courses on literacy coaching at the Harvard Graduate School of Education since the fall of 2007, and he currently works as an assistant professor in Educational Leadership at Salem State College. Jacy’s writing has appeared most recently in the Literacy Coaching Clearinghouse (2009), the Massachusetts Reading Association’s Primer (2009; 2005), the Harvard Educational Review's Special Issue on Adolescent Literacy (2008), and the International Reading Association’s Standards for Middle and High School Literacy Coaches (2006). Jacy continues to consult in Boston-area K-12 schools as a reading specialist and literacy coach. Jacy began teaching in the Boston area eight years ago, after earning his master's in education from HGSE and his bachelor's in English and Psychology from the University of Delaware's Honors Program.
Degrees
- Ed.M., Harvard University