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Foci:
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Teacher Education & Community College Leadership
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Pilot Project Description:
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Building on new EdD in Leadership, final stages of Teacher Leadership and Community College Leadership EdDs
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Purpose/Goals:
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- Provide state with high quality, practice-oriented administrators
- Identify and coordinate one research core & one foundations core across programs
- Develop comprehensive examination structure across programs
- Access and utilize statewide research agendas to support the programs and the state of Washington
- Develop comprehensive dissemination standards
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Key Characteristics:
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- State-wide cohort delivery model
- Common sharing of leadership experiences and challenges
- Collaborative inquiry around issues of practice
- Faculty of recognized academic scholars and successful and experienced administrators
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Student profile:
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- Target underserved groups
- Cohorts
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Core Courses:
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- Common core of research and foundations courses:Knowledge and skills to critique research & to develop a scholarly line of inquiry to address issues of practice
- Focus on improving educational practices
- Modes of inquiry that address local and state issues of practice
- Development of district/university partnerships
- Context for leadership and educational advocacy
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Action steps:
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- Needs surveys completed
- Design retreats held
- Focus group feedback received
- Research and foundations cores discussed
- Hold faculty vote on final designs
- Seek university & state program approval
- Develop recruiting materials
- Plan orientation sessions
- Develop program review plan
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Evaluation steps:
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- Programs are approved
- Application numbers are sufficient to grow the programs
- Participants influence the courses and the program designs
- Practitioners indicate value and future use of research dissemination
- Graduates influence their fields of practice
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Progress toward design concepts:
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- Key concepts and principles for developing the dissertation:Related to a significant issue of practice
- Framed as an asset model of thinking
- Synthesize and clarify the research relative to practice
- Informs educational policy and practice
- Contribution to the field
- Results in a dissemination plan
- Results in a publishable or public document
- Common procedures dissertation committee organization:Involvement of campus faculty
- Involvement of a practicing professional
- Involvement of a member from another institution
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Challenges:
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