Delia E. Racines

Delia E. Racines, PhD, serves as an administrator overseeing a Reading and Literacy Added Authorization Program as well as a School Business Management Certificate Program at the University of Southern California and a consultant in Los Angeles, California. She has served as a principal, assistant principal, instructional coach, and teacher over the past twenty years in both Washington DC and Los Angeles. Racines has built instructional coaching programs from the ground up, led various professional learning initiatives, and aligned efforts with each district’s progress as professional learning communities.

Racines effectively transitioned department chairs to instructional coaches through tailored modules and received Learning Forward’s prestigious Shirley Hord Learning Team Award. Racines also designs and delivers professional learning and courses for matriculating MAT students with the University of Southern California Rossier School of Education’s Office for Professional Learning, Endicott College, and Teaching Matters. She received the Emerald Literati Award for Outstanding Author Contribution for her research in education law. Racines was nominated for the Association of California School Administrators’ Co-Administrator of the Year and received the Teachers Honoring Excellence Award for 2018–2019 in Los Angeles.

Racines received a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Virginia Tech, a master’s degree in criminology from Radford University, and both a master’s degree in curriculum and instruction and a doctorate in teacher education and educational leadership from George Mason University.