EDDL 7902 Leadership and Educational Reform

Purpose: to help other instructors teaching the same course

Common Course ID:  EDDL 7902
 CSU Instructor Open Textbook Adoption Portrait

Abstract: This open textbook is being utilized in a educational leadership doctoral course by Dr. Jess Block Nerren at CSUSB. The open textbook provides copyright allowable scans of relevant and updated reading materials, plus available library resources. The main motivation to adopt an open textbook was updating materials and saving students money. Most student access the open textbook in canvas LMS

EDDL 7902 Leadership and Educational Reform
 
Brief Description of course highlights:  Semester Prerequisite: Admission to the EdD Program. Explores governing educational policy, including significant laws, legal principles, recent litigation, teacher and faculty rights and duties, administrative behavior, board relationships and labor management relations. Focuses on connections between legislative and judicial action and the social, political and economic forces affecting education and leadership practice. https://catalog.csusb.edu/coursesaz/eddl/ 

Student population:   Students are doctoral level students in a cohort completing their doctorate in educational leadership. Students must have 5 years of experience in education in order to enter the program. They will be roughly starting their dissertation at the time of this course.

Learning or student outcomes: 
1. Describe governing educational policy
2. Identify forces affecting leadership and education
3  Develop strategies for navigation of ed. law and policy

Textbook or OER/Low cost Title: Educational Leadership OER materials

Brief Description:  I went a very low tech route of providing copyright-permissible scans of excerpts of books for the assigned readings of the course.

Adamson, F., Astrand, B., & Darling-Hammond, L. (Eds.). (2016). Global Education Reform: How Privatization and Public Investment Influence Education Outcomes (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315680361

Blokhuis, J. C., Van Geel, T., & Feldman, J. (2021). Education law (Sixth edition.). Routledge.

Bryson, J.M. & Alston, F.K. (2011). Creating your strategic plan : a workbook for public and nonprofit organizations (Third edition., Vol. 3). Jossey-Bass.

Bryson, J. M. (2011). Strategic planning for public and nonprofit organizations : a guide to strengthening and sustaining organizational achievement (4th ed.). Jossey-Bass.  http://media.wiley.com/product_data/excerpt/17/04703925/0470392517-2.pdf

Dahill-Brown, S. E. (2019). Education, equity, and the states : how variations in state governance make or break reform. Harvard Education Press.

 *Kemerer, F., & Sansom, P. (2013). California School Law: Third Edition (3rd edition.). Stanford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780804788427 

Love, B. L. (2023). Punished for dreaming : how school reform harms Black children and how we heal (1st edition.). St. Martin’s Press, an imprint of St. Martin’s Publishing Group.

*Mitra, D. L. (2022). Educational change and the political process (Second edition.). Routledge.

Pak, K., & Ravitch, S. M. (Eds.). (2021). Critical leadership praxis for educational and social change. Teachers College Press.

Ris, E. W., & University of Chicago. Press, publisher. (2022). Other people’s colleges : the origins of American higher education reform. The University of Chicago Press.

Rosenberg, B. (2023). “Whatever it is, I’m against it” : resistance to change in higher education. Harvard Education Press.

Student access:  It is all accessed on canvas provided directly to students in the LMS course shell.

Supplemental resources: I made a faculty only lesson plan using these readings and resources for an active learning UDL style classroom for adult learners.

Provide the cost savings from that of a traditional textbook. This saved my students $330 each from the immediately prior teaching of the same course

License:  Copyright permissible excerpts of the materials listed above

Instructor Name - Jess Block Nerren
I'm the faculty fellow for disability inclusion at CSUSB. I'm appointed into the department of communication studies and affiliate faculty in the doctoral program.
Please provide a link to your university page.
https://www.csusb.edu/profile/jessica.nerren

Please describe the courses/course numbers that you teach.
SPED7906 Leadership and Program Dev. for Students w/ Disabilities
EDDL7902 Leadership and Educational Reform
EDDL7320 Assessment and Data Driven Decisionmaking (dev.)
COMM675 Strategic Public Relations Graduate MA Course
COMM6075OL Strategic Communication Graduate MA Course
COMM6973 Thesis Graduate MA Course
COMM6085 Research Thesis/Project Proposal
COMM591 Internship in Comm.
COMM591OL Internship in Comm. (Asynchronous)
COMM542 Crisis Communications
COMM5401OL Crisis Communications Online (Asynchronous)
COMM5302OL Communication Law and Policy Online (Asynch)
COMM4491OL Adv. Pub. Relations Practicum Online (Synchronous)
COMM4491 Advanced Pub. Relations Practicum (Hybrid)
COMM4491 Advanced Pub. Relations Practicum
COMM442 Public Relations Campaigns
COMM4292 Adv. Practicum in Mentoring and Self-Advocacy
COMM399 Community Service in Comm
COMM344 Public Relations Writing
COMM3403OL Business Literacy for Strategic Comm. (Asynch.)
COMM3402OL Public Relations Writing Online (Synch. and Asynch.)
COMM342 Publication Design
COMM3372OL Publication Design Online (Synch. and Asynch.)
HON3300 Envt. Sustainability and Strat. Comm. (Developed)
HON3350 Communicating the Environment (Developed)
COMM3211OL Business and Professional Comm (Asynch.)
COMM2592OL Research Practicum in Communication (Asynch.)
COMM2491 Public Relations Practicum Self Advocacy Edition
COMM243d Public Relations Practicum
COMM243dOL Public Relations Practicum Online (Synchronous)

Describe your teaching philosophy and any research interests related to your discipline or teaching.  I often teach using UDL practices. 

OER/Low Cost Adoption Process
Please provide an explanation or what motivated you to use this textbook or OER/Low Cost. For example: saving students money, improving the learning materials, or customizing materials for special needs, etc.  I wanted to save students money and also update the readings.

How did you find and select the open textbook for this course?  For example: consulted librarians, other faculty, browsed OER sites, read peer reviews, evaluated resources, other?  I purchased $400 in books to review and used excerpts of each

Sharing Best Practices: The sustainability of open education relies on sharing with others. Please give suggestions for faculty who are just getting started with OER or Low-Cost options.  List anything you wish that you had known earlier.  I have been doing this in my courses for a long time though this is the first time i’ve applied for the grant. Get a scanner, work with your accessibility office for remediation, and supplement readings with a video summary in the spirit of UDL

Describe any challenges you experienced, and lessons learned. For example: incomplete OER/Low-Cost materials, lack of printing facilities, bookstore confusion, academic senate support, missing ancillary materials, articulation, other?   No challenges