My research and practice has focused on initiating and supporting Networked Improvement Communities, enabling teacher leadership, and strengthening feedback to teachers to make it more meaningful and actionable. Below are select peer-reviewed publications.

School Improvement & Coaching

Khachatryan, E. & Parkerson, E. (2020, March). Moving teachers to center of school improvement. Kappan, 101(2), 29-34.

Khachatryan, E., Shreve, B., & Eckert, J. (2023). Challenges and considerations for improvement science coaching. In Anderson, E. & Hayes, S. (Eds.), Continuous improvement: A leadership process for school improvement. Information Age Publishing.

Teacher Leadership

Eckert, J., Ulmer, J., Khachatryan, E., & Ledesma, P. (2015). Career pathways of teacher leaders in the United States: Adding and path-finding new professional roles. Professional Development in Education, 42(5), 687-709.

Parkerson, E. & Khachatryan, E. (2024). Learning to lead: Improvement communities as a scaffold for teachers’ leadership. In Eckert, J. & Carpenter, B. (Eds.), Catalytic Improvement Communities. Information Age Publishing.

Teacher Professional Development

Borko, H., Virmani, R., Khachatryan, E., & Mangram, C. (2015). The role of video-based discussions in professional development and the preparation of PD leaders. In Calandra, B. & Rich, P. J. (Eds.), Digital video for teacher education: Research and practice. New York, NY: Routledge. 

Virmani, R., Khachatryan, E., Borko, H. (2025). Novice teacher leaders’ facilitation of video-based discussions of mathematics teaching. Mathematics Teacher Educator, 14(1), 1-13

Labor-Management Collaboration

Khachatryan, E. (2011). Baltimore Public Schools, Maryland. In Eckert, J. (Ed.), Local labor management relationships as a vehicle to advance reform: Findings from the U.S. Department of Education’s labor management conference. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of education.