Jennifer Clark-Saboda, PhD

Adjunct Professor

Special Education (Advanced)
Childhood Education/Special Education All Grades
  • Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo, Educational Leadership and Policy (ELP)
  • M.Ed., Canisius College, School Administration, and Supervision
  • M.Ed., Canisius College, Childhood Education, and Special Education
  • B.A., SUNY Buffalo, Health and Human Services; Early Childhood, Sociology
Email
(716) 888-3751
Office
CT 1116

Dr. Jennifer L. Clark-Saboda is an educational practitioner and researcher who has been in the special education field for 24 years, employed in various roles. Dr. Clark-Saboda currently works as the Director of Alternative and Special Education at Erie 2-Chautauqua-Cattaraugus BOCES, where she has served as the lead administrator for the past 12 years. She is also the Chairperson of the Statewide Network for Special Education (SNSE), a group serving as a conduit between the NYS Department of Education and schools across the state through consistent delivery of messaging and statewide representation of voice.

Additionally, Dr. Clark-Saboda is a qualitative educational researcher who has examined the women’s superintendency, gendered organizations, and gendered disproportionality within the profession related to the BOCES of NYS. Her work aims to offer a new understanding of why women stay in the superintendency while also bringing thoughtful attention and appreciation to how these women succeed in a male-dominated field through professional and personal supports. Dr. Clark-Saboda’s work is shaped by her career in NYS public education and her experiences in research. Personally, Dr. Clark-Saboda is the mother of three wonderful children, one of whom is diagnosed with Autism. Dr. Clark-Saboda brings the perspective of both a practitioner and researcher lens, but also as a parent navigating the field.

Awards

  • Ph.D. Excellence in Research, Scholarship, and Creativity Award by SUNY Buffalo, ELP department, 2022
  • David L. Clark Scholarship, American Educational Research Association, SUNY Buffalo, ELP department, 2021
  • Alpha Sigma Nu: The National Jesuit Higher Education Honor Society, Canisius College, 2005

Publications

  • Clark-Saboda, J.L. and Lemke, M. (2023). Revisiting Acker’s gendered organizational theory: What women overcome to stay in the superintendency. Frontiers in Education, 1-14. doi: 10.3389/feduc.2023.1160225
  • Lemke, M., Nickerson, A., & Saboda, J. (2021). Global displacement and local contexts: a case study of U.S. urban educational policy and practice. International Journal of Leadership in Education, 1-25. doi: 10.1080/13603124.2021.1884747.
  • Wing, M. & Saboda, J. (2018). Charter schools: The destruction of teacher certification in New York State. Texas Education Review, Fall 2018 Special Issue, 31-49. http://doi.org/10.15781/T2VT1H87N