Going to be the Change Agent: Have I got some lessons for you

1. Going to be the Change Agent: Have I got some lessons for you Sharon Ryan Sharon.ryan@gse.rutgers.edu

2. Going to be the Change Agent?: Have I got some lessons for you Sharon Ryan Sharon.ryan@gse.rutgers.edu

3. Educational Policy Educational Psychology Language and Literacy Mathematics Rutgers EdD: Where We Were… • Ed.D. Programs • Ph.D. Programs Early Childhood/ Elementary Literacy Social Studies Educational Administration and Supervision Mathematics Science Language Social and Philosophical Foundations (2) Special Education (2)

4. Where We are Now The Core of Leadership What it is that we expect leaders to be able to know and do Design of Learning Environments Educational Leadership Capstone Education, Culture, and Society Special Education Teacher Leadership

5. Ed.D. Goals Scholarly leaders who are able to: • Understand change • name and frame problems • understand different ways of approaching the change process • understand the social context of change • Work with other people/community to enact improvements • Interpret and use inquiry to solve problems of practice • Know about learning and teaching • Be an advocate for the educational community

6. Design Components • Common Core • Learners and Learning • Leadership and Change • Inquiry • Broad Contexts for Educative Processes • Concentrations that are Interdisciplinary • Teacher Leadership • Educational Leadership • Design of Learning Environments • Special Education • Education, Culture, & Society • Capstone • Administrative and Advising structure • Student Centered • Brings Faculty Together • Cohort Model • Intensive Time Frame

7. Typical Schedule

8. How did we get here? • Year 1: Information Sharing and Gathering • Retreat • Town Hall Meetings • Outreach to Current Educational Leaders

9. How did we get here? • Year 2: Deepening the Design • Design Teams • Design Day • Interdisciplinary Faculty Work Groups to Develop Core • RFPs for Concentrations • Getting to a Faculty Vote

10. How did we get here? • Year 3: Actualizing the Design • Developing Sequences for Each Concentration • Practicalities • Recruiting Students • Organizing Space • Recruiting Faculty to Teach in the Summer • Designing Classes to be Taught • Getting Started • Creating an Evaluation Design

11. Lessons Learned • Clear Time Frame • Vision • Backward Map • Get your Boss on your Side • RESOURCES

12. Lessons Learned • Collect Data • Understand Programs • Talk with Students • Identify Issues that new Ed.D. can Address • Know your institution • -Identify the Power Relationships in your Building

13. Lessons Learned • Identify Key Stakeholders • Faculty • Students • Key Members of the Field

14. Lessons Learned • Be Transparent • Communicate • Communicate • Communicate

15. Lessons Learned • View Ed.D. work as a Professional Development Opportunity • Faculty • Change Agent

16. Lessons Learned • Have an Evaluation Design in Place • Structures to Make Process School-wide and Interdisciplinary • Use Data to Inform Decision Making