André Villeneuve

André Villeneuve

Professor of Educational Administration in the Department of Educational Sciences at the University of Quebec in Trois-Rivières.
Co-founder of the CADENCE Lab (Data Collection and Analysis for Continuous Improvement in Education). Researcher at the Interuniversity Research Center on Teaching Training and the Teaching Profession (CRIFPE) at the Educational Management Research Center.

André Villeneuve is a professor of educational administration in the Department of Education Sciences at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR). He obtained his doctorate in educational administration and policy from Université Laval in 2021. For more than twenty-five years, he worked as a secondary school teacher and assistant principal while completing a master’s degree in educational administration and evaluation at Université Laval. A member of the board of directors of the Association for the Development of Teaching and Research in Educational Administration (ADERAE), he is involved as vice-president of communications and on the organizing committee of the annual ADERAE conference, held as part of the ACFAS congress, as well as in the organization of the scientific day for knowledge transfer and mobilization, which is also held annually. He is co-founder, with his colleague Alain Huot (UQTR), of the CADENCE Lab (Data Collection and Analysis for Continuous Improvement in Education). He is a researcher at the Interuniversity Research Center on Teaching Training and the Teaching Profession (CRIFPE) in the educational management research center. He is also a member of the Interregional Research Group on the Organization of Work of School Directors in Quebec (GRIDE). His main field of interest is data-driven decision-making in education, which led him to design, within a professional learning community (PLC), a pedagogical decision-making tool using artificial intelligence and analytics techniques. His other fields of interest cover professional learning communities, pedagogical supervision, results-based regulation policies, effective teaching practices, planned organizational change, and action research.