Robyn Madison-Harris
Program Associate
Robyn Madison-Harris is a Program Associate with SEDL's Improving School Performance program. Dr. Madison-Harris currently supports SEDL's Southeast Comprehensive Center (SECC). She plans and delivers technical assistance and professional development to Louisiana, assists in providing these same services to other states served by the SECC, and assists with school improvement and turnaround efforts in all the SECC states. She is the SECC liaison to the Assessment and Accountability Comprehensive Center and analyzes assessment and accountability data for the SECC states. In addition, she assists SECC clients with educational leadership development, leadership program review, accreditation rubric development, Statewide System of Support work, policy development, and school improvement process revision.
Contact Information
You may contact Robyn Madison-Harris at 225-751-8770
Dr. Madison-Harris’s interests include accountability, assessment, leadership, and school improvement. Her doctoral work focused on the causes of employment attrition and retention in a state education agency.
- Assessment and Accountability: Dr. Madison-Harris has more than 5 years of experience working with state and other education agencies, including the Louisiana Department of Education (LDE), to develop policy, training materials, and calculation tools related to accountability requirements in the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). She has also worked with the LDE as a research analyst, focusing on policy analysis and all types of accountability data (e.g., assessment, attendance, dropout, graduation, industry-based certification, diploma, career/academic diploma endorsement, GED, skills certificate). In addition, she has served as a school and district assessment coordinator.
- Leadership: Dr. Madison-Harris has done extensive organizational leadership research, which she has applied in the work she has done with leading organizational reform efforts. She also has provided academic component leadership in a state-operated school district and alternative education leadership at the Baton Rouge Marine Institute for adjudicated adolescents in Louisiana.
- Turning Around Schools: Dr. Madison-Harris has worked with state education agencies, school districts, and schools on school improvement planning, process revision, and execution. She also has provided consultation for data-driven school reform.
Prior to joining SEDL, Dr. Madison-Harris served as an education program consultant for the Louisiana Department of Education, where she developed policy, training materials, and tools related to assessment, accountability, and school turnarounds. She supervised the academic component in a state-operated school district and served at the school-level as the director of academic services for the Baton Rouge Marine Institute for adjudicated adolescents in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In addition, Dr. Madison-Harris was a high school teacher for 6 years and taught English, African American literature and history, and publications. Education
Dr. Madison-Harris holds a bachelor of science in secondary education and a master of education in administration and supervision from Southern University and A&M College in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She holds a doctorate of education in organizational leadership with an educational leadership specialization from Nova Southeastern University in Davie, Florida. SEDL Publications
- Southeast Comprehensive Center eBulletin, Volume 5, Number 2: Increasing High School Graduation Rates and Improving College Enrollment for High-Need Students (2011)
- Using Data to Guide Instruction and Improve Student Learning, SEDL Letter, Volume XXII, Number 2 (2010)
- Southeast Comprehensive Center eBulletin, Volume 4, Number 4: Creating and Implementing High-Quality Data Systems at the State Level (2010)
- Rapid Response: Statewide Uniform Grading Practices (2009)
- Rapid Response: Web-Based State Longitudinal Data Systems (2009)
- Southeast Comprehensive Center eBulletin, Volume 4, Number 2: Adopting Rigorous College- and Career-Ready Standards and High-Quality Assessments (2009)
- Madison-Harris, R. (2008). Causes of employment attrition and retention in a state education agency. Doctoral dissertation. Available from Dissertation Abstracts International (UMI No. AAT 3298790).
- Crain-Dorough, M., & Madison-Harris, R. (2008, March). The evolution of accountability reporting: Lessons learned over nine years by a state education agency. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2008 Annual Meeting, New York, NY.
- Madison-Harris, R. (2003–2008). Series of statewide and nationwide presentations on the Louisiana accountability system.
