ELPA 2009 News

Awards and Honors

Paul V. Bredeson Receives Jay D. Scribner Mentoring Award
Austin, Texas — UCEA's Jay D. Scribner Mentoring Award will be presented to Dr. Paul V. Bredeson, Professor at University of Wisconin-Madison and Dr. Linda C. Tillman, Professor at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill for their outstanding commitment to mentoring graduate students and junior faculty.

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Recognized by the School of Education for their 30 years of service to the university were ELPA professor and former chancellor John Wiley and Student Services Coordinator Shari Smith. The Department congratulates and thanks both of them for their dedication and service.

ELPA graduate Genella Taylor Stubrud, assistant professor and director of STEM and Diversity Initiatives at UW-River Falls, has received one of the Wisconsin Alumni Association’s (WAA) Forward Under 40 Awards. Stubrud has created a program that encourages historically underrepresented students to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) – especially as educators. She received a Ph.D. from the Department in 2007. Read more.

Marjorie Cook, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department, is the recipient of a Doctoral Scholarship for 2009-2010, awarded by the American Association of Women in Community Colleges. Read more.

Professor Geoffrey Borman has been nominated and accepted as a Fellow of the American Education Research Association (AERA). From the award lettter: "The AERA Fellows Program was established by the AERA Council in 2007 to honor education researchers with substantial research accomplishments, to convey the Association's commmitment to excellence in research, and to emphasize to new scholars the importance of sustained research of excellence in the field...The Class of 2009 Fellows is the first group to be inducted."

ELPA Professor Eric Camburn is the recipient of two recent awards. The paper “School context and individual characteristics: What influences principal practice?”, which Dr. Camburn co-authored with colleagues from Vanderbilt University and the University of Pennsylvania, was awarded the W.G. Walker Outstanding Paper Award by the Journal of Educational Administration. A second paper, co-authored with colleagues from Northwestern University, appeared in a special issue of the Journal of Educational Administration that focused on Distributed Leadership. That special issue received the “Outstanding Edition” award for 2008.

Other News

ELPA Ph.D. students LaVar Charleston and Raul Leon were selected by ASHE to represent the Department at the ASHE Graduate Student Policy Seminar Program, November 4 - 5, 2009, in Vancouver, Canada. The Graduate Student Policy Seminar provides graduate students with opportunities to interact with researchers and policymakers who are knowledgeable about critical public policy issues in higher education. Information about ASHE can be found here.

This fall ELPA students will be presenting at the following conferences: The Gerontological Society of America's 62nd Annual Scientific Meeting, Atlanta, GA UCEA (University Council for Educational Administration), Anaheim, CA Values and Leadership Conference, Penn State Education Law Association 55th Annual Conference, Louisville, KY Association for Institutional Research in the Upper Midwest, Bloomington, MN ASHE (Association for the Study of Higher Education), Vancouver, British Columbia Conference on Latino Education and Immigrant Integration, Athens, GA

Doctoral candidate Rebecca Lowenhaupt was awarded the Spencer Dissertation Fellowship. The working title of her dissertation is: Institutional Adaptation to Demographic Shift: Educating the New Latino Diaspora. Her doctoral advisor is assistant professor Eric Camburn. The Spencer Foundation supports, "individuals whose dissertations show potential for bringing fresh and constructive perspectives to the history, theory, or practice of formal or informal education anywhere in the world." Information regarding the fellowship is available here

At the ELPA end-of-the-year party and commencement celebration, graduate students recognized Dr. Jennifer Delaney as Teacher of the Year and Dr. Carolyn Kelley as Mentor of the Year. This is the second year in which ELPA graduate students have recognized faculty with these awards. ELPA graudate Jason Johnson received an award for the Outstanding Dissertation of the Year.

The George Tipler family has funded an annual grant to be given to a student in the administrator preparation program of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis. Mr. Tipler was the former Executive Director of the Wisconsin Association of School Boards. The grant is for the study of a school legal issue. The amount of the grant in 2009 is $700. Read more.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: August 15, 2009

Applications should be sent to:
Julie Mead
Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis
1025 W. Johnson St.
Room 1186F
Madison, WI 53706
email: jmead@education.wisc.edu

ELPA student Antonio Daniels is quoted at length in the May 18 Badger Herald article on reaccreditation. Read more.

ELPA PhD student Cornelius Gilbert was featured as the keynote speaker for the 2009 Black Male Summit, hosted by the African American Academic Network (AAAN's) and the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs at the University of Illinois-Chicago, April 10, 2009.

Becci Menghini, a 1999 ELPA graduate , was recently selected by UW-Madison's new chancellor, Biddy Martin, as Chief of Staff to the Chancellor.

A large number of ELPA faculty and students will be featured presenters at the annual conference of the American Education Research Association (AERA), to be held April 13-17 in San Diego, CA. Presenting their current research are: Professors Geoffrey Borman, Paul Bredeson, Eric Camburn, Colleen Capper, Jennifer Delaney,Richard Halverson, Jerlando Jackson, Julie Mead, Allan Odden, and Al Phelps, and ELPA students LaVar Charleston, Yi-Hwa Liou, Cate Pautsch, and Moses Wolfenstein. Also attending the AERA conference is ELPA student Hans Klar as the department representative for the David L. Clark Seminar.

Dr. Borman: "Growing Capacity or Dissipation? Second-Year Effects of a School-Randomized Trial on the Effects of Professional Development on School Achievement in Elementary Science"
Dr. Bredeson: Session Chair for "International Educational Leadership Communities of Practice: Laying the Foundation." Dr. Bredeson is also a participant in "Challenges and Opportunities of Superintendents Working as Collaborative Learners"; "Superintendents as Collaborative Learners: Modeliing and Creating Communities of Practice"; and "Professional Development for Principals."
Dr. Camburn: "Examining Professional Community in Schools: A Multilevel Latent Class Approach" and "What Do We Know About Classroom Instruction from Large-Scale National Surveys?"
Dr. Capper: "Rethinking Theories of Change: Lessons from Integrated, Socially Just Districts and Schools" and "Integrated, Socially Just Schools and Districts: Lessons for Leadership Theory, Practice and Preparation."
Dr. Delaney: "State Spending on Higher Education: Testing the Balance Wheel Over Time". Dr. Delaney is also chair of the session on "Community Colleges: Finance, Policy and Transfer."
Dr. Halverson: Participant in "Building School Capacity Through Distributed Leadership"; "Distributed Leadership in Practice: Preliminary Findings from a Mixed-Method Evaluation"; "Game Designs as Educational Research"; "Remembering Math: The Design of Digital Learning Objects to Spark Professional Learning"; "Using New Technologies or Software Solutions to Improve Learning in the Classroom."
Dr. Jackson: "Factors That Attract African American Males to Computing Sciences: A Study of Aspiring and Computing Scientists" and "Increasing African Americans' Participation in Computing Sciences in Higher Education: Research Results from an Intervention Program". For the second year, Dr. Jackson is also the Director of the Asa G. Hilliard III and Barbara A. Sizemore Course on African Americans and Education, held in conjunction with AERA.
Dr. Mead: Session Chair for "Teacher Tenure and Professional Responsibility"; "Charter Schools and Lessons on Autonomy, Governance and Administration"; ' "Who, by Reason Thereof", Needs Special Education: Exploring the Relationship Between Regular Class Performance and IDEA Eligibility'; "Schools, Universities, and the First Amendment."
Dr. Odden: Participant in session: "Estimating the National Costs of an Integrated PreK-3rd Education Program."
Dr. Phelps: "School Counselors' Strategic Use of Individualized Learning Plans: Promising Practices for Implementing the ASCA Model."
LaVar Charleston: Co-presenter with Dr. Jackson -- "Factors That Attract African American Males to Computing Sciences: A Study of Aspiring and Computing Scientists" and "Increasing African Americans' Participation in Computing Sciences in Higher Education: Research Results from an Intervention Program".
Yi-Hwa Liou: "Crisis Management or Crisis Response Culture? A Complexity Science Approach to School Leadership"
Cate Pautsch (co-presenter with Rachel Lander of WCER/VARC): "The Challenge of District-wide School Improvement Using a Large Urban District's Implementation of Read 180 as a Lens to View the Difficulties of District Improvement"
Moses Wolfenstein: "My Raid Leader, My Teacher: What We Can Learn About Schools from Guild Leadership" and "Remembering Math: The Design of Digital Learning Objects to Spark Professional Learning" (with Richard Halverson).

ELPA faculty have been featured speakers at recent professional conferences. Professor Carolyn Kelley, with Racine Schools Superintendent Jim Shaw, presented a session on "Leadership for Equity and Excellence in Student Learning" at the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction's "New Wisconsin Promise" Conference in Madison, January 26-28. At the annual convention of the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP), Professor Kent Peterson delivered the keynote address,"Shaping School Culture: The Heart of Leadership." In March, Dr. Peterson also led a seminar in Kansas City, "Shaping Organizational Culture in Districts and Schools", for the Kansas and Missouri Superintendents Forum.

Professor Clif Conrad is featured in a new documentary video on the Voices of American Law website at Duke University--a website anchored in detailed interviews with key parties in major U.S. Supreme Court cases. Dr. Conrad has been an expert witness on desegregation in higher education, including statewide desegregation of higher education in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Ohio, and gender discrimination: whether women should be able to attend all-male public institutions, The Citadel and the Virginia Military Institute. Read more.

ELPA alumnus John LaNear has been named president of Grantham University. Read more.

Professor Carolyn Kelley and Racine Schools Superintendent Jim Shaw have a book forthcoming from Corwin Press: Learning First! A School Leaders' Guide for Closing Achievement Gaps.

Jossey-Bass Publishers has issued the second edition of Professor Kent Peterson's text, Shaping School Cultures. Another book by Dr. Peterson, The Leadership Paradox: Balancing Logic and Artistry in Schools, has just been translated into Korean.

Department Chair Paul Bredeson's text, Designs for Learning: A New Architecture for Professional Development, has been translated into Chinese and published by Psychological Publishing Co., Ltd., Taipei, Taiwan.

Dr. Ming-Dih Lin, a graduate of the Department, recently became the Director of the Graduate Institue of Education in the National Chung Chang University in Taiwan.

The Department is participating in a two-year grant funded by the Wallace Foundation to advance an aligned system of Leader Development in the State of Wisconsin. The $2 million grant provides resources to support collaboration across educational systems in the State of Wisconsin to build a collaborative and aligned system that mutually reinforces the development of principals who can lead schools to close achievement gaps and advance learning for all students. The project partners include the Department of Public Instruction, the five largest school districts in the state (Milwaukee, Madison, Racine, Kenosha, and Green Bay), the state’s three primary research universities (University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and Cardinal Stritch University), and the Association for Wisconsin School Administrators (AWSA). This grant continues the collaboration between these partners initiated through a previous three-year Wallace grant to define, document, and assess mastery in school leadership in urban schools in Wisconsin.

The current project has three primary components: (1) Developing a system of leadership development aligned with a shared vision of mastery in educational leadership which advances equity and student learning; (2) Building leadership for learning at the high school level through work with high school leadership teams implementing a learning initiative at the school level; and (3) The development of an assessment toolkit, with resources to support the development of leadership for learning. In the project, Professors Carolyn Kelley and Paul Bredeson will be working with four high schools in Madison and Racine to advance leadership for learning at the high school level, and to build future principal leadership. Professors Carolyn Kelley and Rich Halverson are working together to advance the assessment toolkit. Graduate students Mark Blitz, Hans Klar, Byron Sharer Robertson, Lindsey Margraf, and Susan Masterson are supporting the project through doctoral research and/or assistantship support.

Professor Emeritus Dean Bowles is the principal consultant to the government of St. Lucia, West Indies, and the Board of Governors of Sir Arthur Lewis Community College to transform the college from a community college to a university in the next five years. Professor Bowles’ 2008 transformation report was accepted by the Board of Governors and the college is currently proceeding to implement its recommendations with the expectation that the first baccalaureate degree class will enter in the fall of 2010.

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