Amy Franz Coldren is an administrator and teacher at Frederick Community College in Frederick, Maryland. She earned her Ph.D. in Human Development and Social Policy in the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University. Coldren was a postdoctoral fellow for the Educational Leadership Collaboratory at Northwestern and is the author of several journal articles and book chapters. She has studied the role of tools in school leadership and management and how teachers construct and reconstruct their understandings of teaching practice.