1. Crossing Boundaries in a School-Wide Program: Collaborating Across Specializations
Candyce Reynolds, Ph.D., Educational Leadership and Policy
Micki Caskey, Ph.D. Curriculum and Instruction
Portland State University

2. Roundtable

3. Roundtable Addresses a Complex problem
Engage diversity of experiences and opinions
Opportunity for exchange and collaboration
Movement from “objective/neutral/universal to accountable/political/situated”

4. What is your problem/concern? What brought you to this session?

5. What is the context? Portland State Graduate School of Education
EdD in Educational Leadership, almost 30 year history
Curriculum and Instruction
Educational Administration
Postsecondary
Special Education
Shared core courses (27 of 72 credit program):
1st year: Prosem, Learning, Organizations, Policy
2nd year: Paradigms of research, Quantitative, Qualitative
Specialization courses (27 credits)
Dissertation (18 credits)

6. More Context: Post CPED
Diversity of Opinions
What are we preparing students for?
What should be in the curriculum?
What does a capstone/dissertation look like?
Shouldn’t we have a PhD? Or shouldn’t we do it the way we’ve always done it? (basically a PhD)
Faculty governance
Move from a committee to a Doctoral Faculty
Issues:
Program Maintenance
Vision/Mission Work

7. Last year: Developing Governance Structure
DPF
Specialization Subcommittees
Big Picture Issues
What is an EdD? What does it mean to get an EdD from us?
Exploring our connection to CPED?
Is it a fit?
If so, how do we leverage their work to make our work better?
Curriculum What do we teach in the core?
Program Maintenance
Oversee Admissions,
Oversee Assessment,
Special Issues beyond specialization scope
Ad Hoc and Ongoing Subcommittees
Ad Hoc Governance
Curriculum Committee
Program Maintenance
Admissions
Special Situations: Timely progress, Re-admits
Big Picture Issues
Establish learning outcomes/curriculum aligned with ultimate career outcomes (who are we preparing?)
Establishing/revising Learning outcomes for specialization
Establishing/revising Specialization content and process
Using assessment to improve curriculum
Work with DPF in establishing/revising core curriculum
Communicate with DPF about their work

8. This year: Big Picture Issues for DPF
Using Improvement Science for answering Big Picture issues
Problem in practice: Doctoral students, advisers, and doctoral course faculty do not share a common vision and understanding of the GSE Doctoral Program.
1st: Fishbone Diagram: potential causes
next: Chose Cause and make changes to address the problem

9. Sharing of issues and discussion
Think, Pair, Share
What would you like to talk about?
Report out
Discuss