Dr. Stacey Rutledge is a Professor in the Educational Leadership/Administration and Educational Policy and Evaluation programs in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies. She has a Master of Arts in Teaching social studies degree from Brown University and a Ph.D. in education from the University of Chicago. Her research focuses broadly on understanding how the work of administrators, teachers, guidance counselors, and students is nested within institutional and policy environments and how different approaches to school reform shape school practices and student outcomes.

She is currently serving as a Project Investigator for the National Center for Scaling Up Effective High Schools (NCSU), a center that has as its purpose identifying the programs, policies and practices that make some urban high schools particularly effective and working with these districts to scale these practices. As part of the NCSU work, she is a recent grantee of a U.S. Department of Education Investing in Innovation Fund grant to continue to scale a joint academic and social emotional innovation called Personalization for Academic and Social Emotional Learning with NCSU partners, Broward County Public Schools.

Her research has been published in the American Educational Research Journal, American Journal of Education, Leadership and Policy in Schools, and Teacher College Record.  She has been an author and co-editor on several volumes, most recently of The Infrastructure of Accountability: Data Use and the Transformation of American Education published by Harvard Education Press. 

She was a high school social studies teacher before getting her doctorate. At FSU, she teaches Qualitative Methods courses, Instructional Leadership, Policy to Practice, as well as Applications of Policy in Schools, among others.