She received her Ph.D. at the University of Texas-Austin as part of the UT-Austin cooperative superintendency program and has master’s degrees from Stanford University and the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. At the University of Texas at Brownsville Dr. Shefelbine teaches Educational Leadership courses, including Curriculum Leadership for School Improvement, Administration of Special Programs, and Introduction to Research for Educational Leadership. These courses are part of the UTB Master’s for Educational Leadership and Texas principal certification programs. Dr. Shefelbine also teaches Instructional Leadership Development (ILD), the Texas certification requirement.