Reading Time: < 1 minutes The Impact of Social Media on Social Work Practice – #SLWK791 Twitter Chat on 3/19/2020 at 9pm EST and 6pm PST. Hashtag for the Chat: #SLWK791 This Thursday, March 19th, my Technology Applications and Social Work Practice students and I are hosting our very first Twitter chat. I recommend reviewing the Standards for Technology and […]
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Reflections on Race, Leadership, and 1619
Reading Time: 4 minutes Nikole Hannah-Jones (2019) ends her 1619 essay with the following words: “We were told once, by virtue of our bondage, that we could never be American. But it was by virtue of our bondage that we became the most American of all” (para. 59).I read this essay when it was first released last summer. Reading […]
Connection, Sisterhood, and Mentorship
Reading Time: < 1 minutes Recently, I was interviewed by the VCU School of Education about why I chose the Department of Educational Leadership to complete my doctorate. If you are interested in reading or want to chat about whether the Ed.D. program would be a good fit for you, I would love to chat with you.
Five Semesters Down, Four to Go!
Reading Time: 2 minutes I have officially completed my fifth semester overall and have only four more semesters until I am Dr. Clark!!! Here are reminders of what I thought after I completed my first, second, third, and fourth semesters. This semester was challenging for me and not solely because of this doctoral program. This semester brought about the […]
Improvement Science and Curriculum Transformation
Reading Time: 2 minutes Improvement science provides a model of enhancement to be used by educational leaders (Crow, 2019). The model of improvement presents four fundamental questions: What is hoped to be accomplished; What changes made would result in improvement; Why are these changes thought to lead to improvement; and How might one recognize that a change made led […]
From Needs Assessment to Implementation: Developing an Integrative Field Seminar
Reading Time: 3 minutes On Friday, October 25th, my colleague Daryl Fraser and I presented on our process for developing an integrative field seminar at the Council on Social Work Education 65th Annual Program Meeting in Denver, Colorado. For those who were unable to attend, below is the information about our session: Introduction Have you ever wanted to develop […]
Did Johnson and Stage (2018) Satisfy Their Research Question?: Critiquing an Article
Reading Time: 2 minutes In their 2018 article Academic Engagement and Student Success: Do High Impact Practices Mean Higher Graduation Rates, Johnson and Stage hypothesized the following: First-year seminars, writing requirements, learning communities, and service learning, as high impact practices, would have a positive correlation with graduation rates. “Freshman seminar would have the largest association with graduation rates” (Johnson […]
Protected: Practicing Summarizing Data Using IPEDS
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Four Semesters Down…
Reading Time: < 1 minutes I have officially completed my fourth semester overall and first semester of my second year in my doctoral program. Here are reminders of what I thought after I completed my first, second, and third semesters. With my new promotion, a redesign of our online program, and the rigors of this program, I have never felt […]
Review of An Inclusive Academy: Achieving Diversity and Excellence
Reading Time: 7 minutes With increasingly diverse student body populations, it is necessary to have a faculty demographics that are aligned with student demographics. Stewart and Valian’s (2018) book An Inclusive Academy: Achieving Diversity and Excellence attempts to provide a roadmap for laying the foundation for attaining an inclusive academy. Of note, Stewart and Valian (2018) focus on the […]