## 2025-07-03 [[AI Dissertation Memo]] [[2025-07-03 - AI Dissertation Meeting Summary]] with [[Tom Hoerr]] and [[Mindy Bier]] 4 different ways people measure learning - knowledge, change, (Fitzpatrick). DOing something you *could not* do before. Content analysis - SUrvey - high bar - what can you use AI for that you couldn't before. story of 4 or 5 who could do this. Groups of 3 or 4 kick around ideas? Can you train for innovation (Lit review). - Learning cycle using new and innovative tools. - What learning models exist out there already? - Motivation to learn (Mindy's ending and my beginning) Cognitive load takes too much and prevents innovation. Cognitive Equity - Comps - Chapter 3 is going to be interactive. Chapter 1 & 2 - focus on that for COMPS - How to assess this - What needs to be submitted? APA format - New Dean (Marius) is interested and open minded. - Need to talk to Amy Blanken for support - [Katya's Talk in chatGPT](https://chatgpt.com/share/60a9e11a-768c-4be5-9a01-7da5118d072f) ## 2025-07-01 - Can you turn in something that is not a - multi-media journal - issue of a journal - the journal just went away. - Podcast episodes? - Digital Identity as an educator? Academic researchers digital identity. ## 2025-06-27 [[Tom Hoerr]] - AI - Learning from the writing - - Integrity - is it something with integrity when using AI. - Integrity - What are the cuases of the civil war? That is the wrong question, because it forces kids to cheat. Don't we already know the answer? So why should I need to say it again as a teenager? The better question is how has the civil war impacted your family history? - The last thing I want is a 180 page dissertation - Second one positions me as being the boundary-pusher - Tom has referred to me often? - Reasonable to me to write a memo saying here's what I'm thinking of doing. - Use AI to do things differently or better. - See that this is going to alleviate teachers' burden. - It's not as sexy to say do it differently. - Attractive to see the person - Light bulb moments. - passion-based interest - 2 hour learning. send Tom the Link AI: Doing School Differently - Cover letter, first two sentences are key. ## 2025-06-27 [[Mike Caldwell]] - Using AI to dream bigger. - Removal of cognitive load - Bigger challenge is around PD - Reprogramming how people think. - Dissertation in practice - get it done small enough. - Caution? is there a market for this? - blended digital learning space - Give them the idea of what is possible. - What is the endgame? ## 2025-06-25 [[Erin Bailey]] - Dissertation in Practice - Design a PD based on lit review - do An AI PD - Using AI to encourage human flourishing. - MagicSchoolAI - don't like doing these things, have ## 2025-06-02 [[AI Dissertation]] ## 2025-05-12 - Pam retirement Aug 1. ## 2025-05-12 - Pam retirement Aug 1. ## 2025-04-14 [[Tom Hoerr]] - inductive analysis - Methods - success skills - formative five? - What does the survey look like? - Survey - 20 questions - Interview/Survey - - semi-structured interviews - [[Literature Review Outline]] - 3 components - SEL Skills, Peer Coaching, Malleability of Success Skills - Growth in Social Skills. - Don't use term peer coaching - Nascent efforts of virtual coaching - Can I generate a term that means this - relationships aren't limited - Virtual Problem Solving - - The smartest person in the room is the room. - Using Technology to grow leadership - Include "Technology" "Leadership" and a verb (grow, supplement, etc.) - GO to Gonzaga University and look at what people are writing in education-focused journals. - "This dissertation... IT is different from peer coaching because..." - people who come to me are fully motivated, - it is not required - they can be more candid, because it's not district-mandated - Something you - Can be valuable because you're not there in person - Virtual counseling - - Online counseling research - Spend a lot of time hooking someone to read the rest. Start with the story of Tenzing and OCD support. - Committee - need to ask someone who is an advocate. ## 2025-04-03 Talking with [[Mindy Bier]]: Send [[Janet Thirlby]]'s dissertation How groups of people have acquired new skills? Snowball sampling - when they start to repeat themselves narrow to Formative Five Went through transformation Journey of leadership is fuzzy when someone else is going to pay for someone to go through coaching. Look through titles of dissertations and use their model. IRB is next step. Violation of confidentiality - not anonymous. Safety features. Develop informed consent - Have to finish the [[Edd IRB]] before end of summer. Focus on literature review what's int he literature about the organic skills, Formative Five. DEI+Belonging How to address the current DEI crap stuff. ## 2025-04-02 Email to Tom I feel confident I’ve got a good plan. My research question is something like this:  How do principals perceive their own growth in organic* skills through the transformative principal mastermind?  * Formative Five mostly, but leaving it open to assess any SEL/Character/Soft skills they might suggest.  I’ll interview former clients who were with me at least 2 years and do a semi-structured interview.  This all still needs a lot of work, but it’s starting to come together. ## 2025-03-27 How the mastermind developed the formative five in principals who participated in it. ## 2025-03-12 How to be a transformative Principal from [[Dr. Valerie Dehombreux]] Wenger - Community of Practice - Mastermind building trust in that group. ## 2025-02-08 It would be fascinating and wise if I do the mastermind to include my interviews as episodes on my podcast. So people have access to the actual responses and the interviews. I should also mine my blog and podcast for stuff related to the mastermind. Quote that, rather than relying on Danny’s book solely. ## [[amber rowland]] [[constant comparative method]] [[video simulated recall interviews]] [[dissertation]] ## 2025-02-25 Policy analysis - ethics around policies for the school districts. Hypocrisy of adults saying they can use it, must cite when you use it. 25 states that have policy already. Limited to Region 7 states. Could also do something with SchoolAI if they're interested. [[dan kelley]] ## Beth Forneuf Portraiture by [Sarah Lawrence-Lightfoot](http://www.saralawrencelightfoot.com/portraiture1.html) [The Art and Science of Portraiture](https://a.co/d/b9vqcOk) ## 2025-02-04 - Podcast as professional development. ## 2024-10-27 Podcast hosts and learning. Ask about what they learned. Ask if they took any courses for anything and how the learning transpired. Open ended learning doesn’t put a cap on achievement like standards-based learning. Possibly only applicable to adult learners. ## 2024-09-18 From [[EDREM 7781]] ![[CleanShot 2024-09-18 at [email protected]]] ## 2024-05-29 - Talk with Tom Hoerr ![[tom hoerr#dissertation thoughts with Tom]] ## 2024-05-28 - talk with ![[mindy bier#Mindy Dissertation Ideas|Mindy Bier]] - Do a dissertation project on the people I have helped (research) and create a framework for coaching that I can teach and sell (project) ## 2024-05-16 Talk with [[Marvin W Berkowitz]] Proposal was about masterminds as a way of professional development for principals - just in time pd. Cousin and rights of Harry Berkowitz. Literature is - Peers supporting each other as a way to do leadership development - Students to find their muse* - how to teach biochemistry - Process becomes an important piece. - Formal, scholarly proposal - 2 chpaters - lit review - methods - what is known, how will it fill the gaps - Not a research study - lit review? - depends on. the nature of the project - PD Curricua - 3 chapters - why curriicula is needed - Dissertation committee - 3 people (faculty) - Tom, Mindy, and one other expert - 3 people accept it, then it's ok. - If you're not testing it out, you don't need IRB. - Real plus to collecting data - Deeper scholarly search - - Medical and business world - do just enough - Here's what people are doing about it in Education. - Decenter from how "I do it" - - Retiree service - Leadership McDonnell Academy - Endowment should cover leadership academy - - Paying to cover the costs - Skin in the game is necessary - Functional defining characteristics - Implementation suggestions - Research on "Skin in the Game" - The more you narrow the sample the less you can generalize. - Do the lit review, become an expert, the refine your question - What do they report about their self-efficacy in leading change in their buildings. - Comprehensives - nobody likes them, Commandant - leader of schools - Not just any change. What kind of change matters? - Repair the last change. - For the better - Noble Purpose - Something to change for the better, nobler purpose - Keywords - masterminds, napolean hill, Gurus of it in the corporate and medical sectors, formal name other than mastermind, peer coaching, outcome research, dissertations - Start with Google Scholar and then find specific databases for medical and corporate world. - [[mindy bier]] - Servant leadership ### other ideas - The perception of principals as it relates to Mastermind - The power of podcasts as informal learning opportunities. - Accessing great minds via podcasts - **The power of just in time learning through podcast hosting.** - improving leadership development by Podcast hosting - Creating your own Master’s degree by doing a podcast. - A self-guided Masters via a podcast. - Start with a single course. Partner with College professors and one of their students - How AI is changing how we teach students - [[Literature review for leadership development]] Dr. Jenny Nash - what are the effective ways to lead professional development for principals? Teachers get PD in bringing in playful learning, the principals need it to. ## essential questions - how can we accelerate the learning Process for adult learners? - since adult learning and development is so complex, how can we make it more personalized? ## Asking questions And Evaluating success - compare to other leaders' development over same time? - self assessment and 360 evaluation #doctorate #edd #umsl [[UMSL Doctorate Panel]]