Happy New Year! As my doctoral program rolls right along, I am currently in the throes of the literature review section of my dissertation. After some going back and forth between potential topics, I have decided to focus my dissertation on the theory of distributed leadership. I’m still in the…
Category: Ed Leadership
Leadership Day 2011: Networking 101
This is my third year participating in the Leadership Day blog carnival, organized by Dr. Scott McLeod of the University of Kentucky or Iowa State University (depending on which online bio you read), or maybe both; I’m not quite sure. In 2009, I wrote about my experiences working for an effective school…
Personalizing Learning in Public Education
About a year and a half ago, I wrote about New Jersey’s pilot program for Personalized Student Learning Plans, defined in the New Jersey Administrative Code as “a formalized plan and process that involved students setting learning goals based on personal, academic, and career interests, beginning in the middle school…
Accepted
After lamenting limited options… After making my statement… After sharing my views… After all this and an application process that started over a year ago, today I received my acceptance letter into the 2011 Cohort for Wilmington University’s Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership program. I start in September; “excited”…
Unsolicited Advice: Get Out of Your Classroom
I don’t mean permanently, of course (unless you want to). I mean for a period, or an hour, or a day here and there, to see what else is happening in and around your school. I’ve been sitting on this half-written post since December of 2009, according to WordPress. No…