Eugene T. Moore School of Education: Steps toward a collaborative effort.

1. Eugene T. Moore School of Education: Steps toward a collaborative effort. • James W. Satterfield, Jr. • Associate Professor • Department of Educational and Organizational Leadership Development

2. Background • Personal relationships inform my professional success. • Upward Bound Counselor (HBCU & Rural). • High School Special Education Co-Teacher (Urban School). • University Judicial Officer (PWI). • University Housing Professional (PWI). • Faculty Member/program coordinator (PWI & HSI). • School Board Member (St. Joseph's Catholic School & St. Anthony Catholic School)

3. A supportive relationship with staff • Any good leadership begins with a good relationship with the staff. • I will always treat staff members with dignity, respect, and fairness. • I will always value the administrative staff as a person and what • they offer to any department and our school. • I will utilize staff expertise to help with efficiency • I support the continuing education of staff. • I support including staff in the search committee process. • I support staff participation in the Staff Senate

4. What I believe • Faculty governance. • Allowing people to do what they were hired to do. • Making your work life easier. • All research ideas, frameworks, and methodologies are valuable. • Encouraging collaboration, but letting it happen naturally. • Diverse work setting for faculty, staff, and students.

5. Who Am I as a Leader • Faculty centered leader. • Faculty, staff, student, and community advocate. • Always approachable. • Supportive colleague.

6. Leadership Perspectives • Servant Leader • Natural feeling of wanting to serve first. • Primarily focus on the growth and well-being of people and the communities to which they belong. • I Make sure that peoples’ highest priority needs are met. • Situational Leader • No one “best” style. • The leadership is task-relevant. • Adaptability is based on the group being influenced.

7. My Approach • Assist departments and individual faculty in what type of department and faculty members they want to be. • Support individuals in their scholarly efforts. • Never shy away from conflict. • Problem solve in a manner that keeps relationships intact. • Work to provide an environment that allows faculty to utilize their skills.

8. How I live out our new mission statement • The Eugene T. Moore School of Education is a transformative leader in systemically improving education, beginning at birth. Our mission is to engage our students in high quality applied research, professional learning, and immersive experiences. We prepare culturally competent scholar practitioners who promote the growth, education, and development of all individuals, with emphasis on underperforming schools and underserved communities across the state and nation. • St. Joseph's Catholic School evaluation research • St. Anthony of Padua Catholic School Parent University • Palmetto PhD Project • Dr. Frederick Cooper

9. How I Connect the idea of P-20 Educational Practice • Two private catholic school boards • St. Antony of Padua Catholic School (Vice Chair) • St. Joseph’s Catholic School • Propel After School Program (middle and high school) • Association for the Study of Higher Education Policy Seminar (Co-chair)

10. How I put our new mission into action through work with students • I believe in providing multiple opportunities for student growth. • American Education Research Association (AERA) • University Council of Educational Administration (UCEA) • Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) • Student retention tenure and promotion (SRTP) • Long-term advising/mentoring and the perpetuation of an academic family • Dr. Edna Martinez (California State University-San Bernardino faculty member and former intern at the Southern Education Foundation) • James Vines (Current Clemson Ph.D. candidate) • Cherese Fine (Current Clemson Ph.D. candidate) • Dr. Chris Croft ( Director of Basketball Operations at Southern Mississippi and former faculty member at the University of Southern Indiana.

11. What should the Eugene T. Moore School of Education be known for? The Eugene T. Moore School of Education should be known for developing educational professionals that approach the learning process from a p-20 perspective.

12. First Step in accomplishing our mission and becoming p-20 • Mission Task Force Groups • Reestablish value as a profession. • Communicate our common goal(s). • Recruit nationally, internationally, to increase the number of students and faculty from underrepresented groups. • Interject our work and ideas into state, national and international policy conversations. • Seek out and obtain interdisciplinary grants and other sponsored research. • Interdisciplinary course offerings. • Connect us to our development officer

13. My Personal Leadership Goal • As a leader I believe it is best when people barely know I exist, when • the work is done, the aim fulfilled, YOU will say: WE did it ourselves. • Adapted from Lao Tzu, Chinese philosopher