About

Dr. Nathan Templeton,
Senior Managing Partner

Dr. Nathan (Nate) Templeton is Chief Executive Officer and Senior Managing Partner at Templeton & Associates Education Consulting. Templeton is also a Professor (Full Rank) in the Department of Educational Administration at Texas A&M University Commerce where he teaches master’s and doctoral level courses in K-12 administration and supervises doctoral research. In addition to supervising research and chairing doctoral dissertation committees, his course specialties are Educational Research for Effective Teaching, Program Evaluation, and Public School Law. Dr. Templeton serves as Director of the Meadows Principal Leadership Program, is an active researcher in the field of education policy and practice, has authored or co-authored more than 49 articles and book chapters, and presents research and professional development seminars both statewide and nationally. Templeton is also the editor of the highly acclaimed book, “Voices from the Field”, a practitioner’s resource for leadership in rural schools.

Education

Stephen F. Austin State University

 
  • Bachelor of Music Education 

  • Masters of Educational Leadership


Liberty University 

  • Doctor of Educational Leadership

Awards

  • Professor of the Year in 2015 

  • Campus Life and Student Development Partner Award in 2016

  • TCPEA Educator of the  Year 2017

  • Joyce Miller Excellent Leadership in Teaching and Learning Award 2017

  • C.W. Leftwich Imagination in Teaching Award 2019
  • Outstanding Dissertation of the Year Chair’s Award 2020
  • Edgar L. Morphet Dissertation of the Year Chair’s Award 2020
  • Researcher of the Year (2020).

Affiliations

  • Texas Music Educator’s Association

  • Texas Council of Professors of Education Administration

  • International Council of Professors of Education Administration

  • American Education Research Association

  • Texas Association of Secondary School Principals

  • Texas Association of School Administrators

  • Association of Title IX Administrators