CPED is pleased to announce the winners of the 2022 Dissertation in Practice Award. The purpose of this award is to honor scholarly practitioner work that adheres to the CPED definition of Dissertation in Practice (DiP): “scholarly endeavor that impacts a complex problem of practice”.
Proposal Submission Deadline: March 1, 2023
CPED received several nominations of faculty members who have demonstrated important contributions to the Vision and Mission of CPED and/or the reclaiming of the EdD as the highest quality professional practice doctorate in education. Our Review Committee spent a great deal of time thoughtfully considering the merits of each application and had to make some tough decisions. As a result, this year we have three outstanding winners. Please see their names and distinctions below and join us in celebrating their noteworthy efforts! We will be awarding these winners at the upcoming CPED Convening Reception, October 13th, 6pm.
Dr. Nancy Fichtman Dana, University of Florida
CPED's academic journal Impacting Education: Journal on Transforming the Professional Practice is excited to announce its editorial board for 2022-2025. The editorial board includes a diverse group of 15 EdD faculty and graduates from CPED member institutions who each bring a unique set of skills, experiences, and research interests to Impacting Education.
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The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa was honored to receive the CPED Program of the Year Award in 2017. We are privileged to join amazing sister programs across the country in this distinction. Our program met the required qualities by focusing on our key principles and components of our EdD program with a focus on preparing professionals as educational leaders.
We're excited to announce that the first set of #CPED20 Convening video recordings and learning exchange resources are ready for CPED members to view. Included are the Wednesday, October 14th keynote presentations, several learning exchange sessions, and the 2020 award presentations.
The remaining resources and video recordings are currently being processed and uploaded to our Resource Center. Due to the large quantity of media, resources will be released weekly throughout November.
The Impacting Education (IE) journal is an open access, international blind peer-reviewed journal where academics and practitioners can publish scholarly articles that meaningfully contribute to the improved preparation of PK-20 educational leaders through the examination of the development, redesign, and improvement of professional preparation programs as well as their outcomes.
This year marks 100 years since the founding of the first EdD program. To highlight and celebrate this milestone and the progress made toward making the EdD a degree that prepares scholarly practitioners for their work in the field, IE is running a special series of three themed journal issues. Each issue will be led by guest editors with content-expertise and will be published in the spring of 2021.
CPED is excited to announce that we've updated the Resource Center for members with many new resources to download. These resources include research, essays, publications, learning modules, and presentation slides.
CPED is pleased to announce that a new issue of our peer reviewed academic journal - Impacting Education - is now available to read for free.
This issue's special theme is Activating Activism: Promoting Activism Within EdD Programs. The themed issue is designed to highlight the challenges, the work, and the results of both EdD graduates and faculty as it relates to activism and becoming change agents within their local educational communities and beyond.
Following the recent killings of Rayshard Brooks, David McAtee, George Floyd, Ahmaud Abery, and Breonna Taylor, CPED Board Member and Dean of the School of Education at Portland State University, Marvin Lynn, asked:
What would it mean for our EdD students to pay more attention to issues of race and inequality in educational systems?
Just like everywhere else, higher education has been highly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. As the semester comes to a close and most of us are embarking on a summer semester teaching online, we would like to provide you with a supportive “just in time” webinar to help with your continued transitions to online instruction.
By: Deanna Hill, J.D., Ph.D. and Kathy Geller, Ph.D, Drexel University
Dr. Stephen Pape - Johns Hopkins University
Dr. Stephen Pape was named as a finalist for the 2020 Brock Prize in Education Innovation for his leadership in designing and implementing an online EdD program at Johns Hopkins University. The online EdD program has the same rigor as a face-to-face program and is available to students globally. The innovation behind the design of JHU’s EdD program prepared scholarly practitioners to leverage leadership skills in creating a positive educational impact in all sectors of the 21st century economy.
By: Yasha Jones Becton
The CPED program design concepts state that mentoring and advising should be guided by: equity and justice, mutual respect, dynamic learning, flexibility, intellectual space, supportive learning environments, cohort and individualized attention, rigorous practices, and integration.
The defining feature and key strength of Florida State University’s online EdD program in Educational Leadership and Administration is the integrated approach to coursework, advising, and research in practice culminating in the Dissertation in Practice (DiP). Courses are designed around and sequenced in a manner that scaffolds toward the DiP.
CPED’s Program of the Year Award (POY) is presented to distinctive and innovative programs. Explain how your program meets these qualities and the role each member in your team played in developing a program of this caliber.
What’s CPED Facilitation all about anyway?
In the last 12 years, the understanding of the EdD has shifted. The field of Education now, by and large, views the degree as a professional practice doctorate. CPED members have utilized our Framework to create programs that meet local contexts and professional practice needs. But as CPED grows, we still see new faculty and new programs struggle with understanding how to design EdD programs that look different than how they were trained or how programs have been modeled for nearly a century.