Janet R. DeSimone

Janet R. DeSimone is an Associate Professor in Leadership Studies and Program Director for Lehman College's Organizational Leadership Graduate Program. As an educator for over 30 years, she credits her current and former students for teaching her most of what she knows about effective leadership. Dr. DeSimone has developed and helped launch multiple leadership degrees and certificate programs, including Lehman's first leadership doctoral program. Her research interests include leadership traits and dispositions, special education leadership, and effective support models for co-teaching. She is committed to fostering ethical, inclusive, and equitable leadership practices in her classes, programs, and professional and personal lives.

Publications

Cases on Leadership Dilemmas in Special Education
Cases on Leadership Dilemmas in Special Education
Janet R. DeSimone, Laura A. Roberts. © 2023. 222 pages.
Children and young adults with disabilities possess unique differences and individual needs, making special education programming a complex and sometimes challenging process....
What to Do When the Bully Turns Out to Be a Parent?
What to Do When the Bully Turns Out to Be a Parent?
Janet R. DeSimone. © 2023. 14 pages.
Emily Poe, an experienced special education teacher with a longstanding history of amiable and collaborative relationships with parents, is encountering difficulty with a parent...