Dr. Katherine Cassada appointed as assistant professor of educational leadership and curriculum and instruction

Dr. Katherine “Kate” Cassada has been named assistant professor of educational leadership and curriculum and instruction in the School of Professional & Continuing Studies education program. She joins recently-hired Dr. Lionel Mews as the School’s latest full-time faculty appointees.

Cassada joins the School most recently from Virginia Commonwealth University, where she worked as coordinator of the EduLead program at the School of Education Center for School Improvement. EduLead is a cooperative effort with the University of Richmond Center for Leadership in Education, itself a program of the Jepson School of Leadership Studies and the School of Professional & Continuing Studies.

Cassada is already well-known at the University, both for her collaborative work with EduLead and for her work as an adjunct assistant professor of education in the School’s graduate educational leadership & policy studies program.

Cassada brings to the School extensive experience and theory in school and educational leadership. She has worked as a classroom teacher, lead teacher, assistant principal and principal in Hanover County Public Schools. Her doctoral degree, from the University of Virginia Curry School of Education, is in education with a focus on administration and supervision. She has taught education and educational leadership courses at the University of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University and here at the University of Richmond.

Cassada regularly presents on school leadership at conferences, civic meetings, schools and universities, and institutes.

She will begin her position at the University on August 1, 2012.