Jeffrey Rabey, PhD

Jeffrey R. Rabey, Ph.D. is a retired Superintendent of Schools. He has been in education for over 30 years and a superintendent for 17 of those years, along with holding the positions of Director of Secondary Education, Middle and High School Principal, Assistant High School Principal, School Counselor and Special Education Teacher. Jeff received his Ph.D. in Leadership and Policy from Niagara University, with his dissertation, “The Self-Efficacy of New York State Superintendents of Schools and their Self-Reflective Practices: A Mixed Methods Analysis”. He has been a member of the New York State Master Teacher Program Application Review Committee, Superintendent Representative to Section VI of the New York State Public High School Athletic Association, member of the Board of Directors for the National Academy Foundation Western New York Region and a member of the Advisory Board for the Depew High School Academy of Finance. He is the past president of the Western New York Education Service Council, the Erie-Niagara School Superintendents’ Association and Section VI of the New York State Public High School Athletic Association. Dr. Rabey also served on the New York State Education Department Mathematics Standards Review Committee, the House of Delegates for the New York State Council of School Superintendents and twice on the Commissioner’s Advisory Council for the New York State Council of School Superintendents.

• Ph.D. in Leadership and Policy Niagara University, 2011-2014
• Superintendent Development Program Oswego State University, 2004-2005
• Leadership Initiative for University at Buffalo, 1996-1998
• Master of Science in Education St. Bonaventure School University, 1993-1995
• Bachelor of Science in Education Daemen University, 1987-1992
   

Dr. Rabey received the Depew-Lancaster Prevention Coalition (FOCUS) Scholar of the Year Award in 2020, he was recognized as a National Academy Foundation Leadership Fellow in 2019, received the 2016 Innovation Award from the Lancaster Area Chamber of Commerce, the 2016 New York State Athletic Administrators’ Association Distinguished Service Award, the 2015 Lancaster Area Chamber of Commerce Community Leadership Award, the Daemen College Distinguished Alumni Award in 2013, was recognized as a “Friend of Prevention” by Western New York United Against Drugs and Alcohol Abuse and Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities (CICU) Independent Sector Alumni Hall of Distinction Award. He has been named in Business First’s Who’s Who In Education since 2008, was a Featured Alumni Profile in Daemen Today in 2007, is a recipient of the Walter Klein American Legion Post #514 Humanitarian of the Year Award and was named Who’s Who Among American Teachers in 2000 and 2005.

Research Interests are as follows: Leadership trends in today's public schools; Reflective practices of educational leaders and Levels of self-efficacy of Urban, Suburban and Rural school leaders.

• Managing Yourself and Others During Crises Situations: Surviving and Thriving as an Education Leader in Spite of It All! W. Polka (2023),
• Rowman & Littlefield Chapter 4 A Practicing Superintendent’s Experiences During a Global Crisis: Recommendations for Preparing for the Next One!; Confronting Oppressive Assessments: How Parents, Educators, and Policy-Makers Are Rethinking Current Educational Reforms, W. Polka (2016),
• Rowman & Littlefield Chapter 7: Superintendents’ Perspectives – Fighting for Local Control and Justice in Education for ALL!; East-West Perspectives on Educational Leadership and Policy, N. Pang & J. Huang (2015),
• Chapter 7: The Self-Efficacy of New York State Superintendents of Schools and their Self Reflective Practices; Leadership and Policy Quarterly, December 2014, Volume 3, Issue 4, pp. 180-199: The Self Efficacy of New York State Superintendents of Schools and their Self-Reflective Practices