Christopher Benedetti

Dr. Christopher (Chris) Benedetti has spent over 20 years in education, including as a middle school language arts teacher, basketball coach, principal, and assistant/associate professor. As a PreK-12 educator, Dr. Benedetti served as dean, assistant principal, and principal in both urban public schools and rural private schools in Florida. Since earning a PhD in Leadership and Education from Barry University and moving to higher education, Dr. Benedetti has served as the coordinator for school principal certification programs at Western Colorado University and Plymouth State University. Currently, Dr. Benedetti serves as the Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi supporting educational leadership students at the Masters and Doctorate levels. Dr. Benedetti has also developed and taught graduate courses in school leadership, organizational culture, human resources, curriculum and instruction, school finance, and research methods. Dr. Benedetti has presented and published on a variety of topics, including leader preparation and succession, teacher burnout and satisfaction, college student ethics, research methods, and adult learning in online and virtually simulated settings. Dr. Benedetti continues to examine equitable school leader preparation and its relationship to existing pathways and leader dispositions.