{"id":9379,"date":"2015-11-10T09:04:27","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T14:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/?page_id=9379"},"modified":"2025-09-30T11:28:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T15:28:02","slug":"catharine-biddle","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/facultystaff\/catharine-biddle\/","title":{"rendered":"Catharine Biddle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2019\/05\/Catharine-Biddle-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"A portrait of Catharine Biddle.\" class=\"wp-image-22994\" srcset=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2019\/05\/Catharine-Biddle-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2019\/05\/Catharine-Biddle-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2019\/05\/Catharine-Biddle-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2019\/05\/Catharine-Biddle-93x140.jpg 93w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2019\/05\/Catharine-Biddle-317x476.jpg 317w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2019\/05\/Catharine-Biddle-423x635.jpg 423w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2019\/05\/Catharine-Biddle-634x951.jpg 634w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2019\/05\/Catharine-Biddle.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 85vw, (max-width: 768px) 67vw, (max-width: 1024px) 62vw,200px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading9379_91cb26-6c, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading9379_91cb26-6c[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading9379_91cb26-6c\"]{display:block;font-style:normal;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading9379_91cb26-6c mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading9379_91cb26-6c[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading9379_91cb26-6c\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading9379_91cb26-6c img.kb-inline-image, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading9379_91cb26-6c[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading9379_91cb26-6c\"] img.kb-inline-image{width:150px;vertical-align:baseline;}<\/style>\n<span class=\"kt-adv-heading9379_91cb26-6c wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading9379_91cb26-6c\"><strong>Director, Center for Applied Research on Education and Schools<\/strong><br><strong>Associate Professor of Educational Leadership<\/strong><br><a href=\"mailto:catharine.biddle@maine.edu\">catharine.biddle@maine.edu<\/a><br>207.581.2450<\/span>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>118 Merrill Hall<br>University of Maine<br>Orono, ME 04469-574<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Bio<\/strong>: Dr. Biddle\u2019s research focuses on ways in which rural schools and communities respond to social and economic change in the 21st century. She is particularly interested in how schools can more effectively leverage partnerships with external organizations or groups to address issues of social inequality and how non-traditional leaders\u2014such as youth, parents and other community members\u2014may lead or serve as partners in these efforts. Her interests are driven by her professional background in community development that leverages schools. Her research has been funded by the American Educational Research Association, the National Science Foundation, and the Spencer Foundation, among others. Her recent projects have looked at how schools addressed social service provision during COVID-19 school closures, how rural schools can better support caregivers in recovery from substance use disorder, how to support long-term teacher and school leader well-being in rural schools, and increasing the pipeline of high-quality STEM teachers to rural schools and communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Education<\/strong><br>Ph.D., 2015, The Pennsylvania State University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Courses taught at 91¸£Àû<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>EHD 661: The Sociology of Education<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>EHD 590: Rural School and Community Leadership<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>EHD 698: Advanced Research Methods<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sample publications<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Biddle, C.<\/strong>, &amp; Frankland, M. (2024). Leading \u201csurvival learning\u201d: Rural school leaders during COVID-19. In S. White, J. Downey, &amp; M. Fuqua (Eds) <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/book\/10.1007\/978-981-97-8293-2\"><em>Leading rurally: Lessons on leadership in rural education<\/em><\/a>. Routledge.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Brown, S. P., &amp; <strong>Biddle, C.<\/strong> (2023). Testing a teacher costs to caring resilience model to identify burnout mediators. <em>Teaching and Teacher Education<\/em>, <em>127<\/em>, 104078. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colby.edu\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.tate.2023.104078\">https:\/\/doi.org\/https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.tate.2023.104078<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Biddle, C.<\/strong> (2022). <a href=\"https:\/\/scholarsjunction.msstate.edu\/ruraleducator\/vol43\/iss4\/4\/\">\u201c\u2018We\u2019ll probably all be in trouble for hugging a kid\u2019: Rural teacher radicalism in addressing adverse childhood experiences.\u201d<\/a> <em>The Rural Educator,<\/em> 43(4), 43-57.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Brown, L.M., <strong>Biddle, C.<\/strong> &amp; Tappan, M. (2022). <a href=\"https:\/\/hep.gse.harvard.edu\/9781682537329\/trauma-responsive-schooling\/\"><em>Trauma-responsive schooling: Centering student voice and healing<\/em>.<\/a> Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Azano, A., Eppley, K., and <strong>Biddle, C.<\/strong> (Eds) (2021). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/us\/bloomsbury-handbook-of-rural-education-in-the-united-states-9781350172005\/\"><em>Bloomsbury Handbook of Rural Education in the United States.<\/em><\/a> New York, NY: Bloomsbury.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Professional website:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/catbiddle.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">catbiddle.wordpress.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catharine Biddle is an assistant professor of educational leadership at the University of Maine College of Education and Human Development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"parent":24368,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"Catharine Biddle is an assistant professor of educational leadership at the University of Maine College of Education and Human Development.","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9379","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"taxonomy_info":[],"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"ckelly","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/author\/caseykelly-2\/"},"comment_info":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9379"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27987,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9379\/revisions\/27987"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}