Dr. Christine Robbins

Dr. Christine Robbins, former Columbia High School principal, chose the topic of "Attitudes Toward School Board Members for Selection of Hiring Women for Administrative Positions" as her research topic while at the University of Virginia where she served as a graduate assistant to the Executive Director of the Virginia Association of School Administrators.  The published article titled, "Hire Him, He's Got Great Legs" details the continued bias against women in line positions in a female-dominated profession related to attitudes, comments, and hiring practices.

Dr. Robbins has served as a building and central office administrator.    She has received awards from the Righteous Persons Foundation which is sponsored by Steven Spielberg, a $5000 Dodge Grant, served as a guest panelist for the McGuire Foundation with Ms. Johanna Wright as well as Bobby Knight at Madison Square Garden, and participated in the Oxford University Roundtable sponsored by Dr. Kern Alexander.

She is the mother of two daughters.

SPECIAL LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCES

• Participant, “Student Achievement:  Superintendents Lead the Way,” AASA, 2007

• Member, Business and Education Committee, Middlesex Chamber of Commerce, 2008

• Chair- Middle States AFG Validation Team, North Arlington High School (NJ), 2007; Dulaney High School (MD), 2006; Martin Luther King High School (PA), 2006; Julia R. Masterman Laboratory and Demonstration School (PA), 2005; Baldwin High School (NY), 2005; Upper Moreland High School (PA), 2005; Yorktown High School (NY), 2008 

• Member - Aspiring Superintendents’ Cohort Seton Hall University, 2004-2005

• Participant – Oxford Round Table Oxford University (England), Summer 2004

·         Guest Panelist- Frank McGuire Foundation, Madison Square Garden, May 2004 and November 2005

           “Principal, Parent, Coach Relationship” with Coach Johanna Wright at Fourth Annual Frank McGuire Foundation High School Coaches Seminar at Madison Square Garden  May 2004

           2005 Coaches Seminar at Madison Square Garden with Coach Bob Knight, Len Elmore, Frank Mickens, Rod Mergardt, Christine Robbins

• Participant - Gilder Lehrman “Worlds of Jefferson”, Charlottesville, Virginia, Summer 2003

• Recipient of $1000 from Righteous Persons Foundation directed by Steven Spielberg, 1998

• Recipient of Dodge Foundation Award of $5000 for public relations project, 1998

• Participant, Project Elite (NJ), Summer 2001

• Participant, Principals’ Leadership Institute, Princeton (NJ), Summer 2000

• Recipient, $1000 from Righteous Persons Foundation directed by Steven Spielberg, 1998

• Recipient, $5000 Dodge Foundation Award for public relations project, 1998

• Member, Salem City Public Schools District Strategic Planning Team, 1997

• Trainer, TESA, Phi Delta Kappa, 1995

• Consultant, Educational Alternatives Incorporated (MD), 1994

• Participant, Center for Creative Leadership (NC), 1993

• Member, Middle States Visiting Committee Hamilton High School West, 1993

• Participant, Harvard Institute on School Law, 1993

• Participant, New Jersey Principals’ Assessment Center, 1993

• Member, Syosset High School, Middle States Visiting  Committee, 1990

• Chair, Research Committee, Long Island Phi Delta Kappa, 1989-1993

• Chair, District AIDS Advisory Council, 1988-1989

• Member, Virginia Secondary School Principals’ Institute for Effective Instruction, 1987-1988

• Chair, Scholarship Committee, Tidewater Penn State Alumni Association, 1986-1987

• Advisor, Senior Class of Deep Creek High School, 1982

• Advisor, Junior Class of Deep Creek High School, 1981

• Scholar, Penn State Senatorial Scholarship Recipient, 1971-1974