Portfolio Submission
The next due date for submitting entries for the Professional Portfolio is March 26, 2009.

Future Submission Dates:
March 26, 2009
June 11, 2009
August 27, 2009
November 5, 2009

Saturday Seminar for Cohorts 8 & 9
Kozol's Shame of the Nation

Kathleen McCaffrey
Middle grades specialist
Fulton County School District

Kathleen, an Ed.D. student in Cohort 8, has been appointed National Middle Schools Association (NMSA) Trustee to represent Teachers South/East Regions. Read more here.

Congratulations to Emmett Shaffer
Director of Guidance and Counseling
Fulton County Schools

Emmett, an Ed.D. student in Cohort 7, has received a $50,000 grant from the Wachovia Foundation in support of the Graduation Coach Program. As part of his research project for the Ed.D. program, Emmett is studying the impact of graduation coaches on high school graduation rate.

Lucia Woods '08The Effectiveness of a Bully Prevention Program as
It Relates to Varied Levels of Bully Prevention Training

Karen Kirby '08 Effects of Explicit Phonemic Awareness Instruction in the Kindergarten Classroom 

Madhavi Sethna '08 Understanding the Support Needs of Veteran Experienced Teachers from India in U.S. Public Schools

Edwin D. Smith '08 The Effects of Using an Expanded, Adapted Rating Scale in Applying the Georgia Teacher Observation Instrument for the Evaluation of Classroom Teachers

Jacqueline Verner '08 A Descriptive Study of Educator Job Satisfaction and Valued Communications

Vickie Smith '08 A Comparison of Counselor Functions in Georgia High Schools Identified as Achieving and Not Achieving Adequate Yearly Progress

Reagan Biwott '07 Examining the Achievement of Alternatively Recommended Minority Students in Advanced Science Classes

Robert D. McLeod '07 Co-Teaching in the Secondary Classroom and its Impact on Student Achievement

Scott D. Phillipps '07 All-Girls Mathematics Classes in a Coeducational Setting

Jo Ann Rouse '07 Facilitating Productive Teacher Collaboration

Barbara Long Bishop '07 The Purpose of Schooling for Georgia Public High Schools as Informed by Textual Analysis of Language Used in School Mission Statements

Mary Ann Lasseter '07 Developing Individual and Collective Visions for Teachers: Establishing Systemic Commitment for School Improvement

Sonya Porcher '07 An Examination of the Use of Differentiated Instruction Practices for Gifted Students in an Elementary Cluster Model Classroom

Kimberly Anderson '07 The Concerns of Middle School Mathematics Teachers

Sonja Bagby '07 Stages of Concern: Measuring the Affective Dimension of Faculty Implementing an Innovation

Leslie Pratschler '07 An Investigation of Middle School Personnel Preferences for Activities Performed by Media Specialists

Please refer to the handbook for the cohort to which you were admitted: (Handbooks for Cohorts 1 - 4 are available in the Ed.D. seminar room).

Cohort 5 Student Handbook
Cohort 6 Student Handbook
Cohort 7 Student Handbook
Cohort 8 Student Handbook
Cohort 9 Student Handbook

Professional Portfolio.
Beginning with Cohort 5, students submit portfolio entries on their Foliotek sites. For students in earlier cohorts, hard copies are submitted. Information on portfolio is available on the following links:

Portfolio Manual for Cohorts 1-4*
Portfolio Manual for Cohorts 5-6*
Portfolio Manual for Cohort 7*
Portfolio Manual Cohort 8

*students in these cohort must use the most current version of the Portfolio Manual