Dr. Jean M. Evans Dávila
B.A., University of Bridgeport
M.S., University of Bridgeport
Ed.D., Western Connecticut State University
Connecticut Teaching Certifications and Endorsements:
Grades 7-12 English (015)
Intermediate Administrator (092)
Superintendent of Schools (093)
Office location: White Hall 329B
Phone and email:
(203) 837-8676
Dr. Evans Dávila is a proud alumna of the Ed.D. Program in Instructional Leadership at Western Connecticut State University. Her doctoral dissertation is a qualitative, multi-case study on the social construction of women leaders’ gender frames. Dr. Evans Dávila has transitioned to higher education from a 28-year career in public education in Connecticut, with an equal number of years as a high school English teacher and a central office administrator. She has taught in Bridgeport, Farmington, and Weston Public Schools. She has served as district-level administrator of K-12 English Language Arts and Reading for Norwalk Public Schools and for the Connecticut State Department of Education’s Connecticut Technical Education and Career System, where her expertise was developed in instructional methods, school and district improvement planning, curriculum and assessment program development and evaluation, professional development programming and facilitation, the system-wide launch of Common Core State Standards in English and Math, and the recruitment and hiring of faculty. In her most recent role as the Assistant Superintendent of Schools of Newtown Public Schools, Dr. Evans Dávila expanded her skill set to include social-emotional wellness programming, crisis management and active shooter response training, budgeting, operations, administrator and staff performance evaluations, labor negotiations, grant-writing, the adoption of Next Generation Science Standards and the C3 Social Studies Standards, the launch of the K-5 Elementary Spanish program, as well the transition of staff and faculty into the newly-constructed Sandy Hook School. Currently, Dr. Evans Dávila is the Coordinator of Secondary Education and an adjunct of instructional methods courses for the B.S. in Secondary Education Program at Western Connecticut State University. Additionally, she maintains her role as an adjunct faculty member in the Humanities Department of Housatonic Community College where she teaches English Composition 101.
