My EdD journey
Semesters, courses, fieldwork, presentations, and the conversations that redirected me. Every point opens into a longer reflection.
Walked in with a list of problems. Left with a list of questions, which felt like the first real progress.
Read culture theory against a building I already knew — two very different pictures of the same school.
A week of observation turned "school culture" from a chapter title into a hallway I actually walk now.
Ten minutes on how one school's "rigor" was really comfortable distance. A stranger asked the question I hadn't answered.
Narrowing from "does belonging matter?" to "what small structures create it?" — a much harder, better question.
A co-presentation with Diana Gaukel for EDOC 7120, Global Histories and Politics in Education — and the first assignment that changed my research question rather than answered it.