Valerie Dehombreux

Dr. Valerie Dehombreux has been a PreK-12 educator since 1998 and Director of Student Information Systems and Communication for the Whiteriver Unified School District in Whiteriver, Arizona since 2021. Her experience includes 15 years as a school principal from 2006 to 2021 and adjunct faculty for Northern Arizona University’s preservice teacher program from 2005 to 2011. Valerie holds Arizona superintendent, principal, and teacher certifications with two endorsements: Early Childhood and English as a Second Language. In 2019 as principal of McDowell Mountain Elementary School in the Fountain Hills Unified School District in Fountain Hills, Arizona, Valerie led the school community in achieving an Arizona Educational Foundation A+ School of Excellence™ award for the first time in the school’s and district’s history. In December 2024, Valerie graduated with an EdD in Leadership and Innovation from Arizona State University. It is a unique, 3 ½-year cohort program that follows the Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED) model where practitioners identify a Problem of Practice (PoP) in their work place settings and conduct cycles of action research to implement innovations/interventions seeking to address the PoP and to build up to the culminating experience of the final dissertation. Valerie’s action research explored formative teacher supervision’s effects on trusting administrator–teacher relationships and teachers’ professional growth. Starting in the fall of 2025, Valerie is serving as an academic associate (adjunct faculty) for ASU’s EdD in Leadership and Innovation program.