School of Education

Teri Marcos, Ed.D., chairs The Department of Educational Leadership at Azusa Pacific University, in Azusa California. She is interested in Strengths-based teaching, leading, and learning, as well as policy measures which affect education in the state of California, and the nation as a whole. She completed her doctorate in 2004 on the effects of legislated educational reform on student achievement in California public schools and is currently researching the effects of Strengths-based theories on student achievement in the U.S. Being a former junior high school assistant principal and summer school principal, Teri is concerned with creating and building engaged constructivist school cultures throughout California’s P-12 public school system.