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Ruthanne Vitagliano

Assistant Professor (clinical)
Educational Leadership
Dewey Hall 1-337
Office Phone: (585) 275-8361
rvitagliano@warner.rochester.edu

Ruthanne Vitagliano

Profile

Ruthanne Vitagliano joined the Warner School Education Administration Department full time in 2007. She had served as an adjunct to the department since 2001. Her extensive K-12 experiences include; English educator, director of curriculum and instruction, curriculum specialist, and high school principal.

Vitagliano teaches certification courses concentrating on the preparation of public and private school administration. The focus of the courses are curricular and instructional leadership, data-driven decision making for school reform, and leadership and organizational dynamics. She also teaches professional writing and communications and a course on entrepreneurial skills for educators.

Ruthanne is the director of the Genesee Valley Writing Project. The Warner School is a national site for this school-university partnership designed to provide quality professional development in the area of writing and teaching of writing for educators K-16 in the greater Rochester region.

Ruthanne supervises the administrative internship program, serves as a coach for the Warner WFL Coaching Consortium, and serves on several Warner School committees.

Her research interests include the study of transformational leadership theory and its effect on organizational dynamics.


Education

Ph.D. State University of New York-University at Buffalo

M.A. State University of New York-University at Geneseo

B.A. Ithaca College