Resources

Some resources I have found useful in my career as a researcher and professor


 
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For Prospective Ph.D. Students

The Ph.D. or the Ed.D?
Vanderbilt’s Ph.D. Program in Educational Leadership and Policy - our program admits students by committee rather than to a specific advisor.

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For Graduate Students

Jessica Calarco’s A Field Guide to Grad School
Fabio RojasGrad Skool Rulz
Heather Haveman’s Advice for Ph.D. Students on her own website
Michelle Phelps’ compilation of advice

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For Faculty

My favorite guides from Vanderbilt’s Center for Teaching:
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On lesson planning/backwards design
- On Bloom's Taxonomy
- On syllabus design

How to mentor graduate students: 
Pay-it-Forward from the William T. Grant Foundation

Faculty development:
National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity
edgeforscholars.org

On book writing:
Resources from Princeton University Press
Beth Luey’s Revising Your Dissertation
Looking for a terrific book editor? Check out the Scholar’s Sidekick.
Here’s a piece I wrote on Promoting Your First Academic Book.

 
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Good reads

On school discipline:
Annotated bibliography on school discipline

Education scholarship by Black sociologists:
Bibliography prepared by Sociology of Education Association Board