About Mavis Sanders
Mavis Sanders
Associate Professor of Education,
Research Scientist,
Johns Hopkins University
Mavis G. Sanders, Ph.D. in education from Stanford University, is associate professor of education in the Department of Teacher Development and Leadership in the School of Education; research scientist in the Center on School, Family, and Community Partnerships; and senior advisor to NNPS at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of many publications on how schools and districts develop their partnership programs and on the effects of partnerships on African-American adolescents’ school success. Her most recent book focuses on principals’ leadership for school, family, and community partnerships(with Steven Sheldon, Corwin Press, 2009). Other books include Building School-Community Partnerships: Collaboration For Student Success (Corwin Press, 2005), and Schooling Students Placed at Risk: Research, Policy, and Practice in the Education of Poor and Minority Adolescents (Erlbaum,2000). Dr. Sanders’s interests include how schools define and develop meaningful school-community connections and how district leaders guide their schools to develop partnership programs. Dr. Sanders directs the Graduate Certificate Program in Leadership for School, Family, and Community Collaboration and teaches related leadership courses.