Education & Human Development

Faculty & Staff

Dianne Hoff
dianne.hoff@umit.maine.edu

333 Merrill Hall
University of Maine
Orono, ME 04469-5749

(207) 581-2714 (w)
(207) 581-3120 (fax)

Title

Associate Professor
Educational Leadership

Education

B.S. Secondary Education (English), Indiana University, Bloomington, 1974
M.S. Secondary Education (English) Indiana University Southeast, 1978
Ed.D. Educational Administration (School Law) University of Louisville, 1998

Links
Legal Issues for Maine Educators, 2nd Edition Educational Leadership Program School Law Talk - Dianne Hoff's School Law Moodle

Representative Courses Taught

• EAD 531 School Law
• EDH 500 Social Context of Education
• Educational Organizations from Personal, Social, and Political Perspectives
• EAD 616 Resource-Based Decision Making
• EDC 595 Leadership In Curriculum Design
• EAD 651 Organizational Behavior
• EAD 562 Group Dynamics and Decision Making
  EAD 561 Program Planning and Evaluation
• EDS 510 Introduction to Research

Research Areas

• Contemporary Legal Dilemmas for Schools
• Social Justice
• Gender and the Superintendency

Representative Publications

• Shariff, S., & Hoff, D. L. (In Press for 2007) Lord of the E-Flies: School Supervision Challenges in the Virtual Islands of Cyber-Space. International Journal of Cyber Crimes and Criminal Justice.
• Hoff, D. L., & Mitchell, S. N. (Nov. 2006). Pay-to-Play: Fair or Foul? Phi Delta Kappan, 88.
• Mitchell, S. N., & Hoff, D. L. (In Press for 2006). ( Dis)Interest in Science: How Perceptions About Grades May Be Discouraging Girls. Journal of Science Education.
• Hoff, D. L., Yoder, N., & Hoff, P. S. (2006) Preparing Educational Leaders to Embrace the "Public" in Public Schools. Journal of Educational Administration, 44, (3), pp.239-249.
• Hoff, D. L., Menard, C., & Tuell, J. (2006). Where are the Women in School Administration? Issues of Access, Acculturation, Advancement, and Advocacy. Journal of Women in Educational Leadership, 4, (1), pp. 43-60.

Representative Conference Presentations

• Hoff, D. L., & Mitchell, S. N. (Under Review 2007). Under Attack: Student Perceptions of Cyber-Bullying. Proposal under review, American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting 2007, Chicago, IL.
• Hoff, D. L., & Mitchell, S. N. (2006). Opening The Club: Overcoming Gender-Related Barriers In School Administration. Paper Presentation, American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, April 7-11, San Francisco, CA.
• Hoff, D. L. (2005). Preparing Educational Leaders to Embrace the Public in Public Schools. Paper Presentation, Part of an invited JEA Panel, "Democracy in Educational Leadership: The Unfinished Journey Toward Justice," University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA) Annual Convention, November 10-13, Nashville, Tennessee.

Representative Public Service

Service to the Schools:

• Cyber-Dilemmas: School Bullying in the 21st Century - Presentations to administrators, teachers, parents at school districts throughout Maine
• Contemporary Legal Issues and Schools - Workshops/presentations for schools and professional associations throughout Maine

Service to the Community and State:

• 1998-present - Friends of the Fogler Board
• 1997-present - Maine Center for the Arts Board
• 1998-2004 - Martin Luther King Breakfast, Co-Chair, UMaine
• 1999-2002 - Acadia Hospital’s Action Committee on School Violence
• 1999-2001 - State of Maine, Task Force Interventions for Chronically Violent Children
• 1998-1999 - Co-chair, Race for the Cure, State of Maine ’s annual event  

Service to the College and University:

• 2006-present - College Diversity Committee
• 2004-present - College Professional Development Network (PDN)
• 2004-present - Faculty Senate Executive Committee
• 2002-present - Faculty Senate
• 2002-present - Chair, Faculty Senate Library Committee
• 2002-present - College Peer Review Committee

Other Information

• 1994-1997: Principal, Aliso Viejo, California
• 1991-1994: Principal, Cartersville, Georgia
• 1974-1988: English Teacher and various administrative duties, New Albany, Indiana
• 1984-1990:   Choreographer/Production Staff Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, New York, NY

Professional Memberships

• AERA - American Educational Research Association/Division A and SIGS
• MEA - Maine Education Association
• NEA - National Education Association
• AFUM – Associated Faculty of the University of Maine