Department Chair of Educational Leadership
Professor
Phone: 860.832.2132
Fax: 860.832.2109
Email: digilio@ccsu.edu
Office: HB 231.0200
Inside 231.000 Suite
Tony Rigazio-DiGilio is Chair and Professor of Educational Leadership at CCSU. Prior to joining the Department in 1990, Dr. Rigazio-DiGilio was a teacher and counselor and served as a principal of a hospital-based special education program and principal of a public elementary school in Berlin, Connecticut. He received his Ed.D. in Instructional Leadership from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Dr. Rigazio-DiGilio’s areas of expertise center on school changes and administration, specifically how districts can work toward school renewal, and on teacher and administrator development across the career span.
Over the past decade Dr. Rigazio-DiGilio has been involved and provided leadership for a variety of statewide and national projects. He help evaluated assessment materials and processes for the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. He was lead author of the Elementary Teaching Standards developed for the Connecticut State Department of Education and worked on several innovative teacher and teacher education projects for the National Education Association (NEA) and the Urban Network to Improve Teacher Education (UNITE) Currently, he co-directs the Leadership for High School Change Academy and works extensively with local schools on multi-year projects aimed at increasing student, teacher, and administrator learning.
Dr. Rigazio-DiGilio has been a leader in developing the Ed.D. Program at CCSU and believes strongly that the synergy of the program will generate and accelerate the efforts of Connecticut educators to improve the quality of teaching and learning at all levels of schooling.