About the Initiative

The Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED) is a five-year effort sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and is under the auspices of the Council of Academic Deans in Research Education, CPED's 501(c)(3) fiscal agent.

Institutions to strengthen the education doctorate. Approximately two-dozen colleges and universities have committed themselves to working together to undertake a critical examination of the doctorate in education with a particular focus on the highest degree that leads to careers in professional practice.

The intent of the project is to redesign and transform doctoral education for the advanced preparation of school practitioners and clinical faculty, academic leaders and professional staff for the nation’s schools and colleges and the organizations that support them. Participants will be guided by recent work of the Carnegie Foundation that has focused on pursuit of excellence in doctoral education and professional preparation.

Participants will then frame their work with a particular emphasis on:

• The scholarship of teaching
• The identification of a signature pedagogy to guide the work
• The creation of laboratories of practice in which future practitioners experiment and undertake best evidence analyses
• New capstone experiences in which future practitioners can work together to produce outstanding demonstrations of their proficiency

Three-Phase Plan for Action by CPED

1. Conceptual and Design Phase
   • organize intellectual communities around work already underway
   • explore possibilities and challenges of experimental programs
   • document and describe challenges and accomplishments
   • identify central issues that confront education schools in program transformation
   • develop a set of design principles centered around scholarship of teaching, laboratories of practice, signature pedagogies and capstone experiences.

2. Experimental Phase
   • launch new pilot programs or “design experiments”
   • provide and support critical advice from member institutions
   • evaluate and assess challenges and accomplishments
3. Deliberation and Dissemination Phase
   • work collaboratively to produce new models for all education schools
   • disseminate new knowledge and information to US education schools
   • present findings to organizational stakeholders—NAE, AERA, AACTE, & others

CPED Leadership

Dr. David Imig, Project Director

DavidImig@cpedinitiative.org

Dr. Jill Perry, Program Director

JillAPerry@cpedinitiative.org