Meet the ISN Leadership Team 

The ISN hub team is headquartered at Vanderbilt University. The hub team coordinates the ISN and leads its improvement-focused field building efforts.

Hub Team
ISN Co-Directors

Jennifer Lin Russell

Professor of Policy & Organizations Vanderbilt

Peabody College of Education and Human Development 

Vanderbilt University

Donald J Peurach 

Professor, Educational Policy, Leadership, and Innovation 

Marsal Family School of Education 

University of Michigan 

Angela Lyle

Research Associate, Educational Policy, Leadership, and Innovation

Marsal Family School of Education

University of Michigan

Daniel Marks

Graduate Student Researcher

Peabody College of Education and Human Development 

Vanderbilt University

Kenton K. Shimozaki

Graduate Student Researcher

Peabody College of Education and Human Development

Vanderbilt University

Collaborative Leadership Board

Marisa Cannata

Professor of the Practice of Education Policy and School Reform.

Peabody College of Education and Human Development

Vanderbilt University

Lora Cohen-Vogel

Frank A. Daniels Endowed Chair of Public Policy & Education

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Alan Daly 

Professor and Director Educational Leadership Doctoral Program 

Department of Education Studies 

University of California, San Diego 

Amanda Datnow 

Chancellor’s Associates Endowed Chair in Education Studies and Associate Dean of Social Sciences

University of California San Diego. 

David Eddy-Spicer 

Professor of Education 

University of Virginia

Bill Penuel 

Distinguished Professor of Learning Sciences and Human Development 

Institute of Cognitive Science, School of Education, Crown Institute at the University of Colorado Boulder 

Derek S. Mitchell, PhD

Chief Executive Officer

Partners in School Innovation

Sola Takahashi

Senior Research Associate

WestEd