Angela Dye

With a strong understanding of the social structural conditions influencing educational philosophy, policy, and practice, Angela engages in public intellectual work, community organizing, and teacher education. She holds a PhD in education, a Master’s degree in instructional and administrative leadership, and a Bachelor’s degree in social science and secondary education.

Her most recent accomplishment is in the research and development of The Empowerment Framework. This framework aims to activate student power in the classroom in order to promote students’ full development, production, and achievement. A significant influence in the development of this framework is in the practice of it. Working as an urban educator for 20 years, as a teacher and (founding) principal, her students (in real time) became her teacher. All lessons learned were initially published in her first book, Empowerment Starts Here: Seven Principles for Empowering Urban Youth. Later those lessons were used to collect, code, and analyze data in her dissertation, The Phenomenon of Student Powerlessness: An Instrumental, Multi-Case Study of Three Teachers Identified as Successfully Serving Low-Income African American Learners. Angela is currently working with a design team to launch The Empowerment Network, an organization designed to support the success of teachers, schools, and community leaders committed to the work of student achievement grounded in student-power.

In her down town, Angela is a country karaoke singer, a political junkie, and a lover of art, science, and spirituality.