CPED Challenge Friday

 Mobilize the System: Mutual Inquiry around the Political Issues Surrounding the Adoption and Implementation of Alternative EdD Dissertation Formats

Date: Friday, Feb 18, 2022

Time: 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET

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Co-Facilitators:

Joy C. Phillips

Dr. 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 taught in face-to-face, hybrid, and online formats for 20 years. She has served as EdD Dissertation Supervising Professor at three universities; she has graduated 40+ Drexel EdD students. She has conducted graduate-level program assessment reviews and training at three universities. She is excited about collectively taking on the leadership of the CPED Online/Hybrid CIG with an amazing team.

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.

Harriette Thurber Rasmussen

Dr. Harriette Thurber Rasmussen has spent the last three decades coaching educational leaders and their systems toward greater capacity. A member of the consultant cohort piloting an integration of Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, Harvard Business School, and the Kennedy School of Government for educational leaders, her practice is strongly influenced by frameworks and perspective from each institution and embodies cutting edge research around student learning, organizational effectiveness, and the socio-political aspects of executive leadership. She also served as a faculty member for the Coach Learning Program of Harvard’s Change Leadership Group and participated in the research and development of their systemic change framework.

Dr. Rasmussen joined the Drexel faculty in 2021 where she teaches doctoral courses in leadership and qualitative research. Previously she taught and chaired doctoral committees for Northeastern University and developed a new competency-based Masters in Digital Teaching and Learning for Fielding Graduate University. She was a founding director and secretary of Educurious Partners, a nonprofit organization that combines project-based learning with an expert network and technology and she has developed synchronous and asynchronous learning modules for Harvard University’s Programs in Professional Education. Dr. Rasmussen has consulted internationally around leadership, learning networks, organizational effectiveness, and community engagement. Her clients have included The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Washington State Board of Education, American Institutes for Research, and school districts ranging in size from 800 to 50,000. 

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