Ian M. Mette (he/him/his)

Dr. Ian Mette's scholarship focuses on three main areas of expertise, namely 1) culturally responsive instructional supervision, 2) technical components of instructional supervision, and 3) rural educational leadership. With regards to culturally responsive instructional supervision, Dr. Mette has co-developed a culturally responsive instructional supervision framework that serves as the foundation for a more critical perspective on instructional supervision, something that has historically been missing from the supervision field. Dr. Mette's second area of scholarship focuses on the technical components of instruction supervision, where he critiques the policies of teacher supervision and evaluation models that reinforce accountability standards and deficit-oriented business management practices. Dr. Mette's third area of scholarship examines rural educational leadership, increasingly the development of equity-oriented rural educational leadership in predominantly white rural spaces.

• Ph.D., University of Missouri, PK-12 Educational Administration (2012)
• Ed.S., University of Missouri, Educational Administration (2008)
• B.S., University of New Hampshire, Resource Economics (2003)

• Culturally Responsive Instructional Supervision Practice Lab Funding ($15,000); University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education Equity-Oriented Transformative Research Program; 2023-12-01;
• College of Education and Human Development Faculty Service Award; University of Maine; 2022-04-15;
• Graduation Marshall; University of Missouri; 2008-12-13;

• Mette, I. M., Cormier, D. R., & Oliveras-Ortiz, Y. (2023). Making a difference: Instructional leadership that drives self-reflection and values the expertise of teachers. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN-13: 978-1475872255.

• Cormier, D. R., Mette, I. M., & Oliveras, Y. (Eds.) (2024). Culturally responsive instructional supervision: Leadership for equitable and emancipatory outcomes. Teachers College Press. ISBN: 9780807769485

• Mette, I. M. (2024). Culturally responsive instructional supervision: Challenging privilege in US education systems. Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership. https://doi.org/10.1177/15554589241234062.
• Mette, I. M. (2022). Developing equitable school leaders in a predominantly White rural educational leadership program in the US. International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation.

• Mette, I. M., Cormier, D. R., & Oliveras-Ortiz, Y. (2023). Culturally responsive instructional supervision: (Re)Envisioning feedback for equitable change. In A. Lavigne & M. L. Derrington (Eds.), Actionable feedback for PK-12 teachers. Rowman & Littlefield.

• Cormier, D. R., Mette, I. M., & Oliveras, Y. (April 2024). Culturally responsive instructional leadership: Disrupting traditional paradigms by centering race to construct new futures in P-20 education. Presidential Session presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Philadelphia, PA.;
• Mette, I. M., Buchanan, R., & Hakkola, L. (November 2023). Homegrown equity audits for responsible educational leadership. Paper accepted for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the University Council of Educational Administration, Minneapolis, MN.;
• Mette, I. M., Cormier, D. R., & Oliveras-Ortiz, Y. (November 2023). Culturally responsive instructional supervision: An instructional leadership framework for equitable and emancipatory outcomes. Paper accepted for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the University Council of Educational Administration, Minneapolis, MN.;
• Mette, I. M., Cormier, D. R., & Oliveras-Ortiz, Y., (April 2023). Culturally responsive instructional supervision as an emancipatory framework. Roundtable presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL.;

• Co-founder of JCEL Jabber Podcast (UCEA production)
  09/30/2022-05/31/2024
• Council of Professors of Instructional Supervision (COPIS) Past-President
  09/02/2019-08/31/2020

• Associate Editor; Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership
  03/03/2025-08/27/2027
• Editor; Journal of Educational Supervision
  09/04/2018-06/05/2026