Allen C. Grant
Associate Clinical Professor
School of Education
Drexel University
United States of America
Biography
"Dr. Allen Grant is an education change agent with a wide variety of experiences in K-12 and higher education. He has taught kindergarten, worked as a language instructor in Spain, and has held a plethora of leadership positions across K-12 and higher education. He is the past Director of the Louisiana Virtual School and was a policy expert and grants coordinator for the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. Grant joined Drexel in 2010 and is the Academic Head of the Department Policy, Organization and Leadership for the School of Education. He is the past Director of the EdD Online and EdD Philadelphia programs, as well as the past Director of the Educational Administration Program. He is a Drexel Online Learning Council Fellow, a Drexel Assessment Fellow and a Quality Matters Master Reviewer. His research interests center on emerging technologies, leadership development, community school models and most anything dealing with K-12 virtual schooling. "
Research Interest
K-3 Virtual Schooling, Virtual School Leadership
Publications
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"DeCarlo, M. J., Grant, A., Lee, V., & Neuman, D. (2014). I-LEARN: Helping young children become information literate. In S. Kurbanoglu, S. Spiranec, E. Grassian, D. Mizrachi, & R. Catts (Eds.), Information Literacy. Lifelong Learning and Digital Citizenship in the 21st Century. Second European Conference on Information Literacy (pp. 243-252). Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. "
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Neuman, D., Grant, A., Lee, V., & Tecce DeCarlo, M.J. (2015). Information and digital literacy in a high-poverty urban school. School Libraries Worldwide, 21(1), 38-53
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Lee, V., Tecce DeCarlo, M. J., Grant, A., Neuman, D. (2017). A collaborative I-LEARN project with kindergarten and second-grade teachers and students at a University-Assisted school. Urban Education. Sagec
