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Research paper thumbnail of Cultivating Exemplary School Leadership Preparation at a Research Intensive University

Journal of research on leadership education, Apr 1, 2015

In 2013, the University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA) in its inaugural “Exemplary... more In 2013, the University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA) in its inaugural “Exemplary Educational Leadership Preparation” (EELP) program competition recognized University of Illinois at Chicago’s (UIC) Doctorate in Urban Education Leadership as one of two EELP programs in the United States. This article provides information about (a) the initial design of this program, (b) the program’s key features as of 2014 following informal and formal program improvement, (c) key work routines and processes that have been introduced and used to support program redesign and ongoing program improvement, (d) key challenges faced in the work to sustain and enhance the program and approaches for addressing these challenges, and (e) recent key program evaluation results.

Research paper thumbnail of Enacting a Cycle of Inquiry Capstone Research Project in Doctoral-Level Leadership Preparation

Advances in knowledge acquisition, transfer and management book series, Jun 16, 2016

Over the last decade, the doctorate in Urban Education Leadership at the University of Illinois a... more Over the last decade, the doctorate in Urban Education Leadership at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) has been redesigned to respond to two distinct but important challenges: (a) the challenge of creating greater distinction between the academic and professional doctorates, and (b) the challenge of improving the nature and quality of its principal preparation program. Within the context of a broader multi-year program improvement and redesign effort, program faculty designed and enacted an alternate Culminating Research Experience (CRE) for their doctoral students. This CRE emphasizes the leadership of cycles of inquiry for school-wide improvement over a two-year period of time and the subsequent analysis of this work using empirical and scholarly literature. The accounting provided in this article advances existing literature by making visible many of the important granular details associated with this CRE as well as considerations associated with its design and implementation within a doctoral-level leadership preparation program.

Research paper thumbnail of Enacting a Cycle of Inquiry Capstone Research Project in Doctoral-Level Leadership Preparation

Contemporary Approaches to Dissertation Development and Research Methods

Over the last decade, the doctorate in Urban Education Leadership at the University of Illinois a... more Over the last decade, the doctorate in Urban Education Leadership at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) has been redesigned to respond to two distinct but important challenges: (a) the challenge of creating greater distinction between the academic and professional doctorates, and (b) the challenge of improving the nature and quality of its principal preparation program. Within the context of a broader multi-year program improvement and redesign effort, program faculty designed and enacted an alternate Culminating Research Experience (CRE) for their doctoral students. This CRE emphasizes the leadership of cycles of inquiry for school-wide improvement over a two-year period of time and the subsequent analysis of this work using empirical and scholarly literature. The accounting provided in this article advances existing literature by making visible many of the important granular details associated with this CRE as well as considerations associated with its design and implemen...

Research paper thumbnail of Establishing Achievable Goals: Recommendations for Improved Goal-Setting Under the Every Student Succeeds Act

Research paper thumbnail of Cultivating Exemplary School Leadership Preparation at a Research Intensive University

Journal of Research on Leadership Education

In 2013, the University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA) in its inaugural “Exemplary... more In 2013, the University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA) in its inaugural “Exemplary Educational Leadership Preparation” (EELP) program competition recognized University of Illinois at Chicago’s (UIC) Doctorate in Urban Education Leadership as one of two EELP programs in the United States. This article provides information about (a) the initial design of this program, (b) the program’s key features as of 2014 following informal and formal program improvement, (c) key work routines and processes that have been introduced and used to support program redesign and ongoing program improvement, (d) key challenges faced in the work to sustain and enhance the program and approaches for addressing these challenges, and (e) recent key program evaluation results.

Research paper thumbnail of Cultivating Exemplary School Leadership Preparation at a Research Intensive University

Journal of research on leadership education, Apr 1, 2015

In 2013, the University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA) in its inaugural “Exemplary... more In 2013, the University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA) in its inaugural “Exemplary Educational Leadership Preparation” (EELP) program competition recognized University of Illinois at Chicago’s (UIC) Doctorate in Urban Education Leadership as one of two EELP programs in the United States. This article provides information about (a) the initial design of this program, (b) the program’s key features as of 2014 following informal and formal program improvement, (c) key work routines and processes that have been introduced and used to support program redesign and ongoing program improvement, (d) key challenges faced in the work to sustain and enhance the program and approaches for addressing these challenges, and (e) recent key program evaluation results.

Research paper thumbnail of Enacting a Cycle of Inquiry Capstone Research Project in Doctoral-Level Leadership Preparation

Advances in knowledge acquisition, transfer and management book series, Jun 16, 2016

Over the last decade, the doctorate in Urban Education Leadership at the University of Illinois a... more Over the last decade, the doctorate in Urban Education Leadership at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) has been redesigned to respond to two distinct but important challenges: (a) the challenge of creating greater distinction between the academic and professional doctorates, and (b) the challenge of improving the nature and quality of its principal preparation program. Within the context of a broader multi-year program improvement and redesign effort, program faculty designed and enacted an alternate Culminating Research Experience (CRE) for their doctoral students. This CRE emphasizes the leadership of cycles of inquiry for school-wide improvement over a two-year period of time and the subsequent analysis of this work using empirical and scholarly literature. The accounting provided in this article advances existing literature by making visible many of the important granular details associated with this CRE as well as considerations associated with its design and implementation within a doctoral-level leadership preparation program.

Research paper thumbnail of Enacting a Cycle of Inquiry Capstone Research Project in Doctoral-Level Leadership Preparation

Contemporary Approaches to Dissertation Development and Research Methods

Over the last decade, the doctorate in Urban Education Leadership at the University of Illinois a... more Over the last decade, the doctorate in Urban Education Leadership at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) has been redesigned to respond to two distinct but important challenges: (a) the challenge of creating greater distinction between the academic and professional doctorates, and (b) the challenge of improving the nature and quality of its principal preparation program. Within the context of a broader multi-year program improvement and redesign effort, program faculty designed and enacted an alternate Culminating Research Experience (CRE) for their doctoral students. This CRE emphasizes the leadership of cycles of inquiry for school-wide improvement over a two-year period of time and the subsequent analysis of this work using empirical and scholarly literature. The accounting provided in this article advances existing literature by making visible many of the important granular details associated with this CRE as well as considerations associated with its design and implemen...

Research paper thumbnail of Establishing Achievable Goals: Recommendations for Improved Goal-Setting Under the Every Student Succeeds Act

Research paper thumbnail of Cultivating Exemplary School Leadership Preparation at a Research Intensive University

Journal of Research on Leadership Education

In 2013, the University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA) in its inaugural “Exemplary... more In 2013, the University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA) in its inaugural “Exemplary Educational Leadership Preparation” (EELP) program competition recognized University of Illinois at Chicago’s (UIC) Doctorate in Urban Education Leadership as one of two EELP programs in the United States. This article provides information about (a) the initial design of this program, (b) the program’s key features as of 2014 following informal and formal program improvement, (c) key work routines and processes that have been introduced and used to support program redesign and ongoing program improvement, (d) key challenges faced in the work to sustain and enhance the program and approaches for addressing these challenges, and (e) recent key program evaluation results.