Gretchen Ann Oltman, JD, PhD

Associate Professor

Associate Professor

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Contact

GretchenOltman@creighton.edu
College of Professional and Continuing Education
Interdisciplinary Department
Organizational Leadership (Master of Science)
Organizational Leadership (Graduate Certificate)
Leadership and Well-Being (Graduate Certificate)
Sports Leadership (Graduate Certificate)
K-12 Educational Leadership through Sports (Graduate Certificate)
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Gretchen Ann Oltman, JD, PhD

Associate Professor

Associate Professor

Dr. Oltman is an experienced educator with over twenty years spent in the classroom and in educational leadership positions. She currently serves as an Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and Program Director of the Master of Science in Organizational Leadership.  She is a licensed attorney and earned a Ph.D. in Educational Studies. She also maintains a professional Nebraska 7-12 teaching (English) in addition to a 7-12 principal/administrative certificate. As a public school teacher, she had the opportunity to develop curriculum, teach reading and writing courses, and manage multiple aspects of assessment. She also supervised multiple K-12 student teaching candidates throughout Nebraska and Iowa. She regularly presents at local and national conferences, including the National Conference for Teachers of English and the Education Law Association. She is an Executive Committee Member on the NCTE's Standing Committee Against Censorship, a group dedicated to the protection of the First Amendment in our nation's schools. She is the author or co-author of five books including Violence in Student Writing: A Guide for School Administrators (2010), Law Meets Literature: A Novel Approach to the English Classroom (2015), Prepare to Chair: Leading the Thesis and Dissertation Process (2019), The Themes that Bind Us: Simplifying U.S. Supreme Court Cases for the Social Studies Classroom (2018), The Supreme 15: Cases and Materials for the AP Government and Politics Exam (2019) and What's Your Leadership Story: A School Leader's Guide to Aligning How You Lead with Who You Are (2021). Her research interests include studying the intersections of law, education, and leadership.

Research Focus

Dr. Oltman's research interests include: education law, censorship challenges, leadership development, and leading in higher education.

Department

Interdisciplinary Studies

Position

Associate Professor

Books

  • A guide to academic program design: Designing, creating, and leading new degree programs
    Clark, J. & Oltman, G. , 2023
  • Brown, L., & Oltman, G. (2022). A teacher's practical guide to safe and secure schools. Routledge. 2021
  • Oltman, G. & Bautista, V. (2021). More than my title: A school leader's guide to creating a leadership philosophy. Alexandria, VA: ASCD 2021
  • Rowman and Littlefield
    Oltman, G., Surface, J., & Keiser, K. (2019). The chair: Leading the dissertation and theses process. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield. 2019
  • Rowman and Littlefield
    Oltman, G., Maddux, C, & Graff, J. (2018). The themes that bind us: Simplifying U.S. Supreme Court cases for the social studies classroom. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. 2017
  • Rowman and Littlefield
    Oltman, G. & Leibhart, K. (2017). Lived experiences of military veterans in the college English classroom. In E. J. M. Knox (Ed.), Trigger warnings: History, theory, and context (pp. 221-230). Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, p. 221-230 2017
  • Oltman, G., Maddux, C., and Graff, J. (2015). Law meets literature: A novel approach to the English classroom. Rowman and Littlefield: Lanham, MD. 2015
  • Corwin Press
    Oltman, G. (2012). Violence in student writing: A guide for school administrators. Thousand Oaks, CA 2012

Articles

  • Please Secure the Leaders Oxygen Mask First: An Empirical and Theoretical Examination of Leadership Wellbeing and its Effect on Student Achievement
    Bautista, V. & Oltman, G. (2021). Building a school leader's personal well-being plan. In Carpenter, B., Mahfouz, J., & Robinson, K. (Eds.), Please secure the leader's oxygen mask first: An empirical and theoretical examination of leadership wellbeing and its effect on student achievement. Information Age Press. 2021
  • Principal Leadership
    Brown, L. & Oltman, G. (2020). New teachers and school safety: A responsibility for all educators. Principal Leadership. (Accepted for publication in the Feb. 2020 issue). 2020
  • Education Law Association
    Sharp, R. & Oltman, G. (2018). Academic freedom and censorship. In M. A. Paige & A. R. Nelson (Eds.). Administrators' guide to employment law and personnel management in schools (17-29). Cleveland, OH: Education Law Association., p. 17-29 2018
  • Clearinghouse
    Oltman, G., Surface, J., & Stader, D. (2017). Living Education Law in 2017:  How Facebook, Prayer, Toilets, and Guns Impact Today’s Teachers. ClearingHouse.
    pending, p. pending 2017
  • Sharp, R. & Oltman, G. (2017). Academic freedom and censorship.  In J.R. Decker, M. M. Lewis, E. A. Shaver, A. E. Blankenship-Knox, & M. A. Paige (Eds). In The Principal’s Legal Handbook. Dayton, OH: Education Law Association. 2017
  • Principal Leadership
    "The principal-led book club" 2016
  • Creighton Journal of Interdisciplinary Leadership
    Brock, B.L, Cherney, I.D., Martin, J.R., Oltman, G. (2015). How to launch a doctoral interdisciplinary leadership program. Creighton Journal of Interdisciplinary Leadership,
    1(1), p. 14-23 2015
  • Principal Leadership.
    Oltman, G. When writing predicts violence. 2010
  • Creighton Journal of Interdisciplinary Leadership
    Hall, G. and Uerling, D. Single-sex schools and classrooms: Is ‘separate but comparable’legally permissible?” Journal of Women in Educational Leadership.
    1(2) 2003
  • Clearinghouse
    Haar, J., Hall, G., Schoepp, P., & Smith, D. H. How teachers teach to students with different learning styles. 
    75(3), p. 142-45 2002
  • New and Notes: A Publication of the Greater Louisville English Council
    Hall, G., “National Standards Already at Work.” News and Notes: A Publication of the GreaterLouisville English Council. Summer, 1995. 1995

Publications

  • USA TODAY College
    Can leadership be taught? USA Today College. Retrieved from http://college.usatoday.com/2014/11/20/voices-can-leadership-be-taught/ 2014
  • Other
    Oltman, G. (2013, October 9). Have you become the dress code police? [Blog post].Retrieved from http://smartblogs.com/education/2013/10/09/have-you-become-the-dress-code-police/ 2013
  • Other
    Oltman, G. (2013, August 21). The case of the unwelcome t-shirts (or 14 t-shirts, that is).[Blog post]. Retrieved from http://www.edjurist.com 2013
  • Other
    Oltman, G. (2013, January 10). Troublesome student writing after Sandy Hook. [Blogpost]. Retrieved from http://www.edjurist.com 2013
  • USA TODAY College
    Hey you! Get your dissertation done! USA Today College. Retrieved from http://tinyurl.com/pxwqzh2 2012
  • USA TODAY College
    When average is good enough. USA Today College Retrieved from http://tinyurl.com/ovy56g5 2012
  • USA TODAY College
    Advice from a kindergartner. USA Today College. Retrieved from http://tinyurl.com/ox4uytw 2012
  • Dissertations & Thesis at University of Nebraska - Lincoln
    Dealing with student violent writing in the English classroom: A framework for public school administrators. Ph.D. dissertation, The University of Nebraska - Lincoln, p. Publication No. AAT 3350257 2010

Editing and Reviews

  • Administrator’s guide to school law 2012
    Oltman, G. and Lineburg, M. (2012). Tort liability. In A.G. Osborne and N.M. Roberts (Eds.), Dayton, OH. Education Law Association. 2012
  • Administrator’s guide to school law 2011
    Oltman, G. and Lineburg, M. School boards/school districts: Governance and finance. In A.G. Osborne and N.M. Roberts (Eds.), Dayton, OH. Education Law Association. 2011
  • Administrator’s guide to school law 2011
    Oltman, G. and Lineburg, M. (2011). Tort liability. In A.G. Osborne and N.M. Roberts (Eds.), Dayton, OH. Education Law Association. 2011
  • Journal of Enrollment Management

    2 issues-2010 2010