Increasing Community Engagement and Motivation as a Leader is the kind of topic that looks straightforward until it collides with the speed, ambiguity, and competing demands of community routines and natural environments. In Increasing Community Engagement and Motivation as a Leader, for this course, the practical stakes show up in better performance, lower drift, and more sustainable team development, not in abstract discussion alone.
Provider: BehaviorLive — via Felician University
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Join Free →In today's higher education landscape, cultivating authentic, reciprocal relationships with communities is essential for impactful scholarship and leadership. This interactive workshop is designed for faculty, staff, and emerging leaders who are committed to deepening their community engagement practices through research, teaching, and scholarship. Participants will explore strategies to build a community-engaged scholarship agenda that reflects their values and institutional mission. Together, we will examine ways to amplify engagement through existing teaching and research initiatives, while identifying new pathways for leadership in collaborative, justice-centered work. By the end of the session, participants will: (1) gain knowledge and practice in building an engagement scholarship agenda; (2) identify methods to integrate and amplify community engagement in their teaching and research; and (3) recognize leadership opportunities that advance community-engaged efforts in higher education.
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| BACB® | 0 | — |
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Dr. Aaliyah Baker is a community-engaged scholar and faculty member in the Department of Educational Administration at The University of Dayton where she pursues research, teaching, and scholarship in communities of practice and place. She began her career as a K12 teacher with the Milwaukee Public School system. She earned her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis on Multicultural Education and a distributed minor in Educational Policy Studies from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Dr. Baker’s scholarship employs critical and postmodern theories and research methodologies to explore an array of independent and collaborative projects in local, state, national, and international forums. Her research interests focus on antiracist leadership, critical pedagogy, the social context of education, and the Black homeschooling movement. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed books and journals, at national and international conferences, and in publicly-engaged outlets. Dr. Baker’s research centers on an ethical commitment to uplifting marginalized perspectives and valuing human experience as knowledge. As an education ambassador and cultural exchange delegate, she traveled to Cuba with an interdisciplinary group of members from the National Association for Multicultural Education to foster a commitment to social justice. Dr. Baker serves as a faculty coordinator for the Moral Courage Project through the University of Dayton's Human Rights Center and faculty advisor and research chair to a diverse group of doctoral students who design, develop, and implement empirical studies focused on problems of practice as leaders in organizations. Dr. Baker was named a Midwest Engaged Scholar of Campus Compact and a national founding member of the Black Family Homeschool Educators and Scholars (BFHES) Review Board of Scholars. She serves as a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Urban Education and was recently elected to the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity National Advisory Council serving the faculty interests and needs committee. Dr. Baker is also the founder and owner of an educational consulting company through which she works to advance constructive dialogue around issues of race, identity, and culture and advocates for responsive practice in organizations. She was born in the South but raised in Milwaukee, WI. Dr. Baker and her family call Ohio and Wisconsin home and split their time living between the two states throughout the year.
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