Challenge Friday: EdD Mentoring and Advising Through Doc Student Support Groups

Date: Friday, June 25th
Time: 1:00 PM ET

Drexel EdD faculty are experimenting with various ways to foster and enhance EdD student support. For this session, Drs. Joy Phillips and Deanna Hill engage participants in an interactive activity with a student advising mechanism, known as a “Doc Student Support Group.” This mechanism expands the faculty conversation by introducing an innovative strategy that blends protocols (McDonald, Mohr, Dichter, & McDonald, 2013), communities of practice (Wenger, 1998), and cohort design (Browne-Ferrigno & Maughan, 2016).

Joy C. Phillips, PhD is an Associate Clinical Professor in the School of Education at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA. Her research focuses on educational leadership, policy development and implementation, and school reform with emphasis on investigating the intended and unintended consequences of educational policy implementation. She has a record of examining qualitatively intractable educational issues by redefining the problem, exploring underlying roots, experimenting with original teaching and research strategies, and building genuine university/public school partners. She has served as EdD Dissertation Supervising Professor at three universities, has graduated 40+ Drexel EdD students, and has conducted graduate-level program assessment reviews and training at three universities. Her work has been published in the Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate journal, Impacting Education: Journal on Transforming Professional Practice, the Journal of School Leadership, Journal of Research on Leadership Education, International Journal of Leadership in Education, Torrance Journal for Applied Creativity, Journal of Curriculum and Supervision, and UCEA Review. Previously, she was an Associate Professor at East Carolina University, Greenville, NC; and an Assistant Professor at the University of Houston, Houston, TX. Her PhD is from the University of Texas at Austin.

Deanna Hill, PhD, JD, is an Associate Clinical Professor in the School of Education at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA. She serves as the Director of the EdD in Educational Leadership and Management program and as a member of the Steering Committee for the Dean’s Equity Leadership Team. With a background in law, her research focuses on state policy development and implementation. She has spent much of her career with national research organizations providing policy analysis and technical assistance to state-level education leaders. Her work has been published in a number of online and print journals, covering topics such as states’ capacity to implement federal education policy, states’ efforts to eliminate disparities in educational outcomes, and the impact of large-scale school improvement efforts. She recently published co-authored book chapters on the recruitment and retention of teachers of color in rural contexts and on the equity implications of school choice policy in the U.S. Her PhD is from the University of Pittsburgh, her JD is from the University of Iowa College of Law, and she practiced law in Texas in the early 2000s. She currently lives in Jacksonville, Florida.