Jeneen Graham

Jeneen Graham, Ed.D. has been the Principal of the Upper School at St. Margaret’s Episcopal School in San Juan Capistrano since 2018. St. Margaret’s is a PK-12 independent day school in Orange County, California. In her role, she leads a community of 475 students and over 75 professional community members. She also teaches AP Psychology. Prior to becoming Principal, as Academic Dean of St. Margaret’s, her responsibilities included curriculum development and alignment for the school community, teacher professional development, database development and data analysis, and the pursuit of promising pedagogical practices and assessments.

Dr. Graham has collaborated with edX, a provider of high-quality online learning opportunities governed by MIT and Harvard, to develop their first-ever high school MOOCs. She has been a frequent presenter at industry conferences including the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS), the National Association of Episcopal Schools (NAES), California Association of Independent Schools (CAIS) and the Educational Records Bureau (ERB). She is also an active member of the CAIS Assessment Think Tank and a Board Member for the California Teacher Development Collaborative (CATDC).

Dr. Graham’s dissertation was entitled, Elements of Human Effectiveness: Intelligences, Abilities and Personality Traits that Predict Success and Fulfillment in Life. Upon graduation, she joined the staff of the UCI School of Education, first as the project manager for ST Math and later became the Assistant Director of the Center for Research on Cognition and Learning. She began her career in schools in South Florida as the Assistant Director of Admission for St. Andrews School.

Dr. Graham holds a B.A. in Anthropology and a minor in Spanish from Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH and an Ed.D in Educational Leadership from a joint UCI/UCLA program.