Jan Westrick earned her Ed.D. from the University of Minnesota (2002) in Educational Policy and Administration and currently serves as Chair and Associate Professor of Education at Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Indiana, USA. Her seventeen years of international administrative experience span elementary and secondary levels of education as well as central, schoolwide leadership, including the roles of High School Assistant Principal for Academics, Coordinator of Curriculum and Staff Development, Special Assistant to the Head (Superintendent) for Strategic Planning, Upper Primary Principal, and Deputy Head of School (Associate Superintendent) at the Hong Kong International School. She has written extensively and led numerous workshops on international education, accreditation, leading educational change, the school as a learning organization, principals as leaders of learning, professional development, intercultural sensitivity, and service-learning. She is an associate with Miske Witt & Associates and has worked on UNICEF and UNESCO projects for Thailand, Macedonia, and Africa. She has trained secondary principals in Oman through the U.S. State Department’s Middle East Partnership Initiative.