Category Archives: Doctoral Studies

This Is A Call: Distributed Leadership


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 very early stages of the [...]

Taking Stock


It’s hard to believe that the school year is 20% over already.  The past few months have been a whirlwind for me, due primarily to me starting both a new job and a new graduate program at the same time.  I’ve debated the wisdom of that decision several times over the course of September, but [...]

Research Opportunity: Writing and AAC


Normally unsolicited emails about products, guest posts, or “special opportunities” get deleted with barely a cursory skim, but I received one recently that I felt warranted a closer look, and eventually a blog post (guess there’s a first time for everything). Samuel Sennott is a doctoral student at Penn State and the co-creator of the [...]

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” doesn’t begin to cover it.

Giving Students a Voice


I just completed a timed writing sample as part of the application process to the Doctor of Education program I’ve mentioned previously.  The prompt required me to take a pro or con stance on allowing students to participate in the curriculum development process.  Please forgive the lack of links or expounding on examples; after all, [...]