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Dr. Bagley started working at Mount St. Mary's College in 2007 as an adjunct professor, and was hired as full time faculty in fall of 2008. She is currently director of the Instructional Leadership Masters and Certificate Programs at the Mount.
Dr. Bagley has been involved in the field of education for the past fourteen years. After working as a teacher’s aide and then a substitute teacher, she received her Multiple Subject Teaching Credential from California State University at San Marcos in 2000, and taught 4th and 5th grade at Ivanhoe Elementary school in Los Angeles for three years. During this time, she served as the English Learner (EL) Coordinator for her school site, maintaining all aspects of assessment and management for the EL program, and working to ensure that all teachers felt comfortable scaffolding instruction for their ELs. The following year, she became an Instructional Math Coach at Ivanhoe, collaborating with teachers to help them improve their math instruction and assessment. She remains deeply interested in issues related to both English Learner Development and peer coaching, and teaches classes at the Mount in both areas.
Dr. Bagley received both her Master’s (2004) and Ph.D. (2007) in the Philosophy and History of Education from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Her dissertation – entitled “Alternative Assessment and Students’ Identities as Learners” – explored students’ responses to the use of narrative evaluations, portfolios, presentations, and detailed rubrics in place of letter grades at an alternative high school in Southern California. Recent publications and conference presentations have both drawn from and expanded upon this early work, and she remains committed to researching the ways in which alternative assessment can make a difference in students’ lived experiences.
In addition, Dr. Bagley has worked and conducted research in the field of international and comparative education. As the Academic Integration Specialist for UCLA’s Education Abroad Program from 2005-2006, she helped to improve the integration of study abroad courses with UC curricula. From 2006-2007, she was Co-Administrative Director of the Center for International and Development Education at UCLA, mentoring graduate students in Comparative Education and helping to coordinate international exchange programs for teachers from developing countries. She has recently co-written a chapter about a unique form of non-formal adult education in Scandinavia known as folk high schools, and will be co-editing an upcoming book on higher education and the globalization phenomenon.
Recent Publications
“Community-Based Folk High Schools in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark.” In R. Raby & E. Valeau (Eds.), Community College Models: Globalization and Higher Education Reform. Springer Publishers. March, 2009.
Click here to download a PDF of this chapter“High School Students’ Perceptions of Narrative Evaluations as Summative Assessment”. American Secondary Education, Volume 36, Issue 3, Summer 2008. Click here to download a PDF of this article
“Growth, Personalization, and Dialogical Exchange in High School”. Interactions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies. Volume 4, Issue 1, 2008. http://repositories.cdlib.org/gseis/interactions/vol4/iss1/art5/
“Reflections, Journeys, and Possessions: Metaphors of Assessment Used by High School Students”. Teachers College Record: July 5, 2006. http://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentID=12570
MSMC Courses
- EDU 200: Research Methods
- EDU 241: Effective Practices for Coaching and Mentoring Teachers
- EDU 253: Language Competence and Education
- EDU 289: Supporting Educational Equity and Access for English Learners