Welcome! We look forward to hosting you for the 2020 Doctoral Symposium: Leadership in Intersecting Crises
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This symposium seeks to:
- Gain insight into educational leadership with regards to a pandemic and racial injustice.
- Connect with doctoral students, RCOE faculty, and alumni.
- Explore inspiration for future research.
WHEN: November 12-13, 2020 from 1:00 - 4:00 pm EST
COST: Free to everyone
OVERVIEW SCHEDULE: Thursday, November 12, 2020
- 1:00 pm Welcome & Remarks
- 1:30 pm Concurrent Sessions: Teaching in a Pandemic
- 2:30 pm Break & Networking
- 3:00 pm Concurrent Sessions: Leadership in a Pandemic
OVERVIEW SCHEDULE: Friday, November 13, 2020
- 10:00 am Photovoice Workshop
- 1:00 pm Presentation of the Alice P. Naylor Award & Remarks
- 1:30 pm Concurrent Sessions: Race-conscious Teaching & Leading
- 2:30 pm Break
- 2:45 pm Concurrent Sessions: Decolonizing Education
- 3:45 pm Collective Reflections
WHERE: Online web conferencing via Zoom (links will be sent after participants have registered for this event)
Detailed Symposium Schedule: Thursday 11/12
1:00 - 1:30 pm Welcome & Remarks by Dr. Melba Spooner, Dean, Reich College of Education, and Dr. Vachel Miller, Director, Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership
1:30 - 2:30 pm
Teaching in a Pandemic
Concurrent Sessions
Trauma-Informed Learning Environments - Dr. Jason Lynch, Assistant Professor of Higher Education
In this session, participants will be introduced to the concept of trauma-informed practices within higher education learning environments. Additionally, participants will engage in reflection and dialogue about supporting students experiencing trauma, as well as acknowledging and managing their own trauma-responses as educators.
Holding Community Together - Dr. Amie Snow, Director of Curriculum and Instruction, & Academy at Middle Fork teachers
In addition to herself, other presenters for this session include: Darron Daniels, Director of Student Services, and Tasha Hall Powell, Principal, along with Kori Trainor, Chantae Reynolds, Monique Johnson, Abby Kirkman, Kim Britt, Suzanne Smith, Marla Cantrell, Alicia Artis, Alix Shaver, Cathy Ryan, Julie West, and Hannah Cope.
Narrating Our Way - Dr. Chris Osmond, Associate Director of the Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership Associate Professor, Mrs. Victoria Carlberg, Graduate Admissions: Associate Director of Admissions and Recruitment & Ms. Kacie Kisielewski, School Counselor, Enka High School
How a Global Pandemic Brought Digital Learning to the Spotlight - Ms. Kimberly Nava Eggett, Doctoral Student at Appalachian State; Digital Lead Teacher at Asheville City Schools, Ms. Rebecca Burry, and Dr. Patrick O'Shea, Associate Professor of Instructional Technology
This session will focus on how the pandemic has provided opportunities and challenges associated with digital learning, including first-hand experience of the leadership needs associated with effectively integrating distance education technologies.
2:30 - 3:00 pm Break & Networking
3:00 - 4:00 pm
Leadership in a Pandemic
Concurrent Sessions
Embodied Leadership During COVID-19 - Dr. Shawn Ricks, Department Chair of the Department of Leadership and Educational Studies and Associate Professor of Leadership and Educational Studies
COVID-19 is demanding that we rethink what leadership looks like. During this highly disjointed time, where square boxes have replaced full bodies and green dots mimic eye contact--what does it mean to bring our whole self to the spaces where we lead? How are leaders who have relied on an embodied presence impacted by this shift, and what measures can we utilize to mitigate the impact of what bell hooks has called the "mind/body split."
Crisis Leadership - Dr. Daisy Waryold, Student Affairs Administration Program Director and Professor
This session will examine the stages of crisis management and the skills and traits that are needed to best manage crises.
Surviving and Thriving: Stories from the Pandemic - Dr. Ann Marie McNeely, Dean of Arts and Sciences, Western Piedmont Community College & Dr. Star Brown, Department Head, Public Services, Western Piedmont Community College
In this session, two community college leaders will share stories of their own experiences with COVID-19, explain how the pandemic has affected their work, and point out some ways that it may change higher education for the better.
Detailed Symposium Schedule: Friday 11/13
10:00 - 11:00 am
PhotoVoice Workshop
Dr. Ashley Carpenter, Assistant Professor of Higher Education
PhotoVoice is a participatory action research methodology used to promote social action through community collaboration. This introductory workshop will present the theoretical foundations of PhotoVoice, methods for engaging participants, and some exercises in utilizing these practices within research projects.
1:00 - 1:30 pm Presentation of the 2020 Alice P. Naylor Outstanding Dissertation Award
This prestigious award honors an outstanding dissertation by a doctoral student whose research advances knowledge of the field, creates innovative methods for conducting research, and suggests insightful implications for practice or theory that will enrich the field. This year, the 2019 Naylor Award winners Dr. Brooksie Sturdivant and Dr. Brooke Hardin will share reflections. The 2020 Naylor Award will be given to Dr. Dustin Evatt-Young.
1:30 - 2:30 pm
Race-conscious Teaching & Leading
Concurrent Sessions
How Teachers Enact Culturally Responsive Teaching - Dr. Mina Min, Assistant Professor, Elementary Education, Ms. Rachel Nelson, doctoral student, & Ms. Chantae Reynolds, doctoral student
As the nation’s demographic landscape has been drastically changed, U.S. public schools have undergone racial, ethnical, cultural and linguistic diversity they have never experienced before. This session will capture the voices of teachers who have implemented culturally responsive teaching in their classes and share their experiences regarding motivation boosters and barriers about the instructional pedagogy enactment.
Becoming a "Tempered Radical" - Dr. Vachel Miller, Director, Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership
How do we both love and challenge our own institutions? This session will explore the concept of becoming a "tempered radical" and its implications for educational leadership in times of crises.
Whiteness and Anti-Racist Leadership in Higher Education - Dr. Dustin Evatt-Young, Associate Director, Career Development Center, Oberlin College and Conservatory
This session will critically interrogate the often hidden and unquestioned white norms that exist within higher education by introducing five archetypes, or White Scripts, that demonstrate how White administrators navigate, challenge, and/or reinforce racial inequities and whiteness in higher education.
2:30 - 2:45 pm Break
2:45 - 3:45 pm
Decolonizing Education
Concurrent Sessions
Listening to Students - Ms. Audra Vaz, Executive Director of Development and Annual Giving and Ms. Cara Hagan Gelber, Associate Professor, Theatre and Dance
This session will cover the importance of listening to and advocating for students to be authentic with their thoughts, feelings, and voice while seeking to create social justice change. The format is an open discussion on our recent experiences listening to students, as well as engaged scholarship.
Teacher Activism During a Pandemic: Digital Repertoires of Contention - Dr. Chris Gilbert, Adjunct Instructor, Warren Wilson College
This session will explore digital forms of teacher activism that have emerged as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Decolonizing Educational Research - Dr. Alecia Jackson, Professor, Department of Leadership and Educational Studies, & friends
Additional presenters include: Rachel Nelson, Kim Miller, Casey Kruk, Kori Trainor, Erin West, Chantae Reynolds, Katharine Johnson, Jon Fleisher, Laura Shears, Maria Hofman, Gwynne Shoaf, and Allen Smith.
This session will feature current doctoral students who present their work from a summer course in which they confronted and challenged the white settler colonial practices of educational research, focusing specifically on the politics of knowledge and relational ethics of power. Concepts such as recognizability, answerability, and positionality are examined for how they provide methodological approaches to community-based and participatory fieldwork.
Credits:
Created with images by Maria Oswalt - "a protestor's shirt with handwritten messages" • Obi Onyeador - "A protester in Washington DC holds a sign featuring George Floyd."