SPL Overview

Throughout your program you will be introduced to the many challenges leaders face in managing

SPL Overview

Throughout your program you will be introduced to the many challenges leaders face in managing complex individual and group dynamics. Leaders today must shape organizational culture, communicate value systems, model ethical behavior, engage and inspire followers, and manage diversity. To achieve these tasks effectively, leaders must be able to integrate scholarship and practice. Integrating scholarship and practice involves obtaining a theoretical understanding of core leadership principles through scholarly research and study. Integrating scholarship and practice also means that leaders convert their theoretical understanding into daily, observable leadership behaviors and practices. Leaders who integrate scholarship and practice are typically effective in both personal and professional arenas. Leaders who integrate scholarship and practice are also able to lead organizations during difficult and challenging times.

Leadership Practice

EXAMPLE OF LEADERSHIP PRACTICE

Determining Your Strategic Fit

As doctoral students, your challenge is to assess yourself and determine your strategic fit. Determining your strategic fit means using critical thinking to evaluate how you will maintain a balance between your scholarly and practitioner experience. You must determine if you possess the 21st-century competencies needed to lead organizations, how you will acquire the competencies you lack, and how to add your own findings to the existing understanding of organizations and leadership. You must determine how you will balance the scholar/practitioner relationship, that is, how you will translate the theoretical knowledge you gain in each course into observable, leadership actions and behaviors. You must strive for internal consistency by having the courage to critically analyze, using available literature and data, and adjusting your behaviors and actions to ensure that they match your words. If you notice inconsistencies, do not proceed with actions that do not successfully pass your assessment and mirror your desired state.

AS AN EDUCATOR HOW WILL THIS ASSESSMENT BE DETERMINE

Practitioner: Stage 1

Common Features	Student Stance on Feature	Faculty Response to Feature
Early writing is markedby an emphasis onpracticalexperience.	Because I believe it, orIhave experienced it,that's good enough tostate as "reality."	Says who?
Opinion is confoundedwithfactual information.	Can exhibit ontologicalarrogance.	Use citations.
Citations are absent or ineffective.	Can be (unintentionally) egocentric and sociocentric.	Use scholarly tone.
Supporting evidence isabsent or regarded asunnecessary.	There isn't a student stance.	Provide supportingevidence.
Critical-thinking operations are absent.	There isn't a student stance.	There isn't a faculty response.

Scholar: Stage 2

Common Features	Student Stance on Feature	Faculty Response to Feature
Almost everysentence issupported with an in-textcitation.	I've been told I don'thave an opinion atCDSuntil I get to Ch. 5 of mydissertation.	Where is your voice, your informed opinion,and your reasonedjudgment?
Triangulationwith professional experience/context is absent.	I'mafraid to offeranything that Icannotfind external supportingevidencefor in theexisting literature.	Can you make any connectionswith yourown professionalexperience and/orcontext?
New models,new critical questions,additional viewpoints,etc. are absent.	There isn't a student stance.	There isn't a faculty response.

Scholar-Practitioner-Leader: Stage 3

Common Features	Student Stance on Feature
Student voice is evident, especiallyat thesynthesis stage.	I can use my voice when I build from theliterature and my experience.
Evidence from the literature is interwovenwith professional experience.	My voice must be tentative, that is, notstated as declarative fact.
A new model, theory, or application issuggested.	Myvoice must be nuanced.
Critical questions are asked, based uponanalysis and evaluation.	I cannot confuse fact from opinion.
A dialogic style is evident.	I can ask powerful critical reflective andreflexive questions at any time.

Keep in mind that when you integrate your own voice by bringing scholarship and practice together, you are reaching stage 3. You need courage to build upon the published scholarshipby adding your professional experience and voice in a skilled manner.

• Reflect on how your writing may be biased toward your own ideas and your own situated ness. Use these questions as a guide:
• How has your writing changed since beginning the doctoral program?
• How may your writing be out of alignment to the elements of the SPL model?
• What are some areas still needing improvement?

PROVIDE CITATIO AND REFERENCES!!!