Educational Leadership Ph.D. - Supplemental Requirements Resume - Applicants should provide the following information in a resume not to exceed three single-spaced pages (1" margins and 12 point font): educational background, work and other professional experiences (including the applicant's current employer's name, location, dates worked, the applicant's job title, and job responsibilities), other information that might be relevant (e.g. organizational affiliations, community services). Please note that this program is designed for working professionals, and the applicant must have a position---whether teacher leader/coach, administrator, or other---that will allow the applicant to implement change in his/her workplace. Successful applicants will be part-time doctoral students while maintaining full-time Pre-K-12 educational leadership roles. Personal Statement of Interest - Applicants should write a personal statement of no more than three double spaced pages (1 inch margins and 12 point font). The statement should address the following: 1) what interest the applicant has about this particular doctoral program, given the applicant’s current or prior/recent professional and academic experiences; 2) a current challenging education policy issue in an EC-12 school or school district setting that the applicant would have an interest in examining as part of the applicant’s program of study and/or education policy research dissertation; and 3) how the applicant envisions the program helping him/her investigate this challenging education policy issue and, through doing so, achieve his/her professional goals. Three Recommendation Letters - Submit three letters of recommendation electronically. At least one letter must be from your current supervisor (i.e., the superintendent for a principal applicant, either Board of Trustees chair or former superintendent for a sitting superintendent, etc.) It is strongly recommended that one letter come from a former faculty member or academic professional, or from someone who can address the applicant's academic ability to become a scholarly practitioner. Lastly, one letter from a person of the applicant's choice who can speak to the applicant's qualities that will contribute to his/her success in a practice-focused doctoral program. Problem of Practice Prompt – The superintendent of an urban school district in Texas has just contacted you expressing her interest in your services as an educational policy consultant. Because of the district’s large percentages of ESL/ELL and economically disadvantaged students, elementary and secondary teachers throughout this urban district are continuing to grapple with multiple instructional planning and classroom teaching/learning challenges associated with accommodating the learning support needs of the district’s underserved students. These challenges are compounded by the fact that the district has also been scrambling to comply with new state education agency requirements—stemming from recent, widely publicized new national education standards calling for the provision of 21st century technology-integrated learning opportunities to students in elementary and secondary classrooms, such as the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) (National Academy of Sciences, 2012)—to incorporate mobile digital technologies and educationally appropriate social media into the district’s instructional programs, including teachers’ instructional planning. So far, the district leadership’s overall responses to these challenges have been reflexive and haphazard at best. The superintendent has been receiving mounting pressure from the school board to develop and present a comprehensive education policy proposal that can address in inclusive ways the instructional technology-integrated teaching and learning needs of all of the district’s learners (students, parents, teachers, instructional support staff, and administrators)— including the needs of underserved student populations and their families. The superintendent is requesting that you, as educational policy consultant, prepare a preliminary “policy development study” prospectus in which you will outline the research procedures you would employ to assist the district with its policy development needs. Since the superintendent is intent on being able to present a comprehensive, data-informed education policy proposal to the school board, she is especially interested in reading about the kinds of campus- and district-level disaggregated and longitudinal learning assessment/academic performance report data mining and analysis procedures, as well as strategies for obtaining perceptual data from multiple school district stakeholders regarding current policy issues, that you will include as integral components of your “policy development study” prospectus. To respond to this writing prompt, please prepare a thoughtful and well-constructed preliminary “policy development study” prospectus brief to comply with the superintendent’s request. Construct your prospectus brief as an initial outline draft of data collection/analysis procedures, policy issues review processes, and policy development strategies that you would include in the complete “policy development study” prospectus you would develop for this urban school district superintendent. In your prospectus brief describe the education policy “issues” you feel would be most important to consider in formulating a workable education policy (or set of policies) for this school district situation. The answer to the above prompt should be not more than 5 pages, double-spaced, 12point font, with one-inch margins. Reference: National Academy of Sciences (2012). Next Generation Science Standards: Executive Summary. Washington, DC: National Academies Press. http://www.nextgenscience.org/ GRE Scores – Your GRE scores must be from within the last ten years. Please request that ETS send an official score report to Texas Tech University (institution code 6827). 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