BDN Workshop Series: Beyond Academia: Leveraging Your Doctoral Degree for Maximum Impact

Description of the Workshop:

Participants will leave with inspiration, personal qualitative data to help clarify their goals beyond academia, and actionable steps to begin moving towards these goals. In this workshop, we will accomplish the following objectives: 1. use reflective questioning strategies to guide participants to collect qualitative data related to their personal passions, interests and patterns, 2. illustrate how social media, websites, and blogs can effectively be used to spread your influence and support work that matters to each participant, and 3. draft an action plan with next steps. 

Intended Audience:

Undergraduate students, Graduate students, Faculty, Industry Professional

Intended Experience Level:

Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

Presenter Bios:

Dr. Toni Harrison-Kelly is a fifteen-year exemplary teaching veteran and education consultant, having worked with a variety of community partners, including KERA, the Dallas-area PBS affiliate, and trained over 1,300 parents and teachers to date. Dr. Harrison-Kelly earned her Doctor of Education in Curriculum and Instruction degree from Texas A&M University, where she focused on researching student engagement in high-poverty, high-minority schools. She currently leads the collaborative community involvement efforts of Southern Methodist University as the Executive Director of the The Budd Center for Communities in Education at Simmons College of Education and Human Development.

Dr. Sharla Horton-Williams is a career educator and organizational leader with a strong commitment to and vision for equity and justice in schools. Over the past 20 years, Sharla has served as a teacher, assistant principal, and principal in private, public charter, and traditional public schools. She has also held numerous community leadership roles and has extensive non-profit experience with education-adjacent organizations. As a full-time education consultant and co-founder of School Leadership for Social Justice, Sharla works with districts and schools across the country to develop and actualize a vision and comprehensive strategy for equity and excellence. She earned a Doctor of Education from Texas A&M University. Currently, Sharla is leading the collaborative academic recovery efforts to support 150,000 students across three Dallas-area districts.

Follow Up:

A Zoom link will be provided to everyone who registers to this event via email when you sign up.

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NOTE: This workshop series will be audio and video recorded.