Mary Lynn Derrington, Ed.D., was awarded a TAA Publication Grant to cover expenses incurred for a recently published article and for her co-authorship of a book chapter. The article, “Metaphors and Meaning: Principals’ Perception of Teacher Evaluation”, was published in NCPEA Educational Leadership Review 14 (3), in October 2013. (NCPEA is the National Council of Professors of Educational Administration.)

The book chapter, “The Changing Conditions of Instructional Leadership,” was published in the Bruce Barnett, Alan Shoho, and Alex Bowers, eds. book entitled International Research on School Leadership Volume 4 — School and District Leadership in an Era of Accountability, published by Information Age Publishing, 2013.

Derrington is an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Tennessee Knoxville.