COE Faculty Profile

Margaret R. Dolan, Ph.D.
Affiliate Assistant Professor
Division of educational leadership and policy studies

Email: dolanm@msx.umsl.edu
Office: 269 Marillac Hall
Phone: 314-516-5944

Having served in the field of education for 33 years, Dr. Dolan has been a classroom teacher, curriculum writer, principal, author, guest on TV and radio and currently is an
Affiliate/Assistant Professor in the College of Education in the Division of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies.

As a principal, Dr. Dolan created the Fight Free Schools process and shared the concept of teaching violence prevention behaviors with other colleagues. The program grew to involve over 180 schools in the midwest while schools from 26 states came on board as well. Dr. Dolan served on Governor Carnahan’s Task Force on Violence and as a panelist at the Summit on Crime. Her endeavors to empower students to solve problems in a peaceful manner earned her an invitation to the White House Conference on School Violence in 1998.

Dr. Dolan has earned numerous awards for her efforts with the Fight Free School Process and currently serves as Fight Free Schools President, offering staff development to assist educators who are implementing the program. She spreads the Fight Free message at National Conferences, seminars and workshops. The success of this program in reducing violence in schools has attracted the attention of local, state and national leaders as they work on legislation to stem violence in our schools and provide the atmosphere for learning which will improve the academic achievement of our next generation.

• Achievement
• Administration
• Classroom Management
• Classroom Research
• Collaboration
• Computer Applications
• Cooperative Learning
• Curriculum
• Decision Making
• Educational Policy
• Educational Reform
• Elementary Schools
• Ethics
• Evaluation
• Facilities
• Faculty Development
• Gifted Education
• Instructional Design/Development
• Law/Legal
• Leadership
• Learning Environments
• Learning Processes/Strategies
• Motivation
• Networking
• Peace Education
• Principals
• Problem Solving
• Professional Development
• School/Teacher Effectiveness
• Staff Development
• Student Behavior/Attitude
• Supervision
• Teacher Education/Development