1. Principles for Professional Practice Doctorates
3. Provides opportunities for candidates to develop and demonstrate collaboration and communication skills to work with diverse communities and to build partnerships.
Rural Schools Network sponsored by Central Valley Educational Leadership Institute (CVELI)
14 Sups from surrounding rural districts meet every other month
Exists to connect rural superintendents - study problem at their district
Sups are paired with faculty and doctoral students
Identify a single district problem and root causes
Doc students learn Fenwick English’s Program audit and applied protocols
Doc students master the data review, document review, classroom scan and interview protocols
Doc students conducted program audits in 5 districts

2. Principles for Professional Practice Doctorates
3. Provides opportunities for candidates to develop and demonstrate collaboration and communication skills to work with diverse communities and to build partnerships (Cont.)
Rural Schools Network sponsored by Central Valley Educational Leadership Institute (CVELI)
Doc students compiled a data binder for each of the 14 participating Sups
Data focus was on statistical views of student achievement for all student sub groups
Data displays included histograms, scatter grams, stand data and like-school comparison data
2 Doc students studied the problem of declining enrollments in a district – provided report and options to address issue

3. Fresno State Signature Pedagogy: Embedded Fieldwork
Principles for Professional Practice Doctorates
4. Provides field-based opportunities to analyze problems of practice and use multiple frames to develop meaningful solutions.
Fresno State Signature Pedagogy: Embedded Fieldwork
Reform Course:
Collaborative groups of students
Work with school site, district office, CC
Study a reform effort at that site
Lit Review about the topic
Information gathering (surveys/interviews)
Written and Oral presentation on findings and
recommendations
Curriculum Perspective Course
Work with school site
Curriculum Alignment for both PreK-12 and HE

4. Fresno State Signature Pedagogy: Embedded Fieldwork
Principles for Professional Practice Doctorates
4. Provides field-based opportunities to analyze problems of practice and use multiple frames to develop meaningful solutions. (Cont.)
Fresno State Signature Pedagogy: Embedded Fieldwork
Org. Design for High-Performing Orgs.
Team Case Study
Observe team meetings (at least 3 times)
Team Assessment
Analyze and critique behaviors
Advanced Curriculum Course
Conducted curriculum audit
Applied Fenwick English’s Program Specific
Program Audit
Doc students learned protocols for data review,
document review, classroom scan and interview
Addressed the areas of English learners, overall
low student achievement, and PreK-3 literacy
Doc students wrote and delivered audit reports
to District Superintendents