D. William Dodds
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What Is Your Vision for ASCD?
Education faces difficult times. In response, ASCD has chosen to address our future and revolutionize itself with the Three-Pillared Strategic Framework. Such vision, I believe, will allow ASCD to better serve educators in these challenging times.
As we address relationships, we must find ways to hear the individuals. Ralph Waldo Emerson stated, "Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind." We need to use the tools of technology and data review to seek input, consider information, and refine ASCD's role as a pivotal educational force. Collective analysis of new ideas will forge great change.
Innovation and design must allow for quick wins that will provide rewards for members and customers. Through the use of 100-day planning cycles, current needs of educators can be met. Yet the overall design of our ASCD agenda (legislative, whole child, member services, and professional development) must remain a continued viable force into the longer-range future.
As we tell the ASCD story, our process should bring all topics to the table for discussion, allow for change integration into the existing practice, and bring our resulting organization to even higher levels of service.
Let us go forth together for a worldwide educational culture change.
Current Position: Executive Director, Illinois ASCD
Education: BA, Millikin University; MS, Indiana University; CAS, Northern Illinois University; EdD, Northern Illinois University
Career History and Highlights: High school teacher, speech and English (4 years); forensics coach (4 years); assistant principal (4 years); principal (15 years); assistant to superintendent (1 year); superintendent (12 years); director of business development school architectural firm (2 years); interim superintendent (2 years). Executive director, Illinois ASCD (4 years); chair, Kishwaukee Independent Delivery System (4 years); president, McHenry Kiwanis (1 year). NASSP/NEH Fellow (1 year), IDEA Fellow (12 years), Fellowship for Improvement of Educational Leadership Fellow (7 years). Presenter, "Paul Revere and the Shot Heard 'Round the World" (25 years), Illinois Association of School Boards Research grant recipient (1 year); instructor, Illinois Administrators' Academy (20 years). McHenry County curriculum council member (35 years) and president (1 year).
ASCD, Affiliate, and Committee Participation: ASCD member (25 years); Illinois ASCD member (35 years). ASCD Leadership Council (4 years); facilitator, ASCD Mid-States Reception (4 years). Presenter at L2L (1 year), Curaçao ASCD Conference (2 years), ASCD Annual Conference (1 year). Illinois ASCD president (1 year) and treasurer (1 year). Cosponsor, ASCD/Illinois ASCD networking event (1 year), cochair, Illinois ASCD HS conference (5 years).
Judith Zimmerman
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What Is Your Vision for ASCD?
Today's technology-driven and rapidly changing global society presents challenges for associations. ASCD is poised to turn these challenges into opportunities to learn, teach, and lead. To survive, associations will need to become more technology-based. Through its vision of revolutionizing the way we learn, ASCD uses technology to expand choices with online memberships, the ASCD EDge® online community, webinars, and even virtual conferences.
Educators need to prepare graduates to become engaged citizens who can meet the social, economic, health, and environmental challenges of a global society. Assisting educators around the world in this charge, ASCD's strategic framework focuses on the association's relationships; processes and practices; and innovation and design of its programs, products, and services. By means of its U.S. legislative agenda and worldwide Whole Child Initiative, ASCD has demonstrated its ability and willingness to exercise political influence and global cooperation.
Through recently approved governance restructuring, ASCD's Board of Directors can better respond to changing times and more flexibly champion the association's future. ASCD Board members are called upon to make judgments in the interests of the entire membership and to empower staff members' work. I am committed to ASCD and welcome the prospect of joining the Board in this quest.
Current Position: Associate Professor of Leadership Studies, Bowling Green State University, Ohio
Education: BS, Kent State University; MEd, University of Toledo; PhD, University of Toledo
Career History and Highlights: Elementary teacher (13 years), middle school counselor (3 years), career center administrator (3 years), middle school principal (1 year), high school principal (6 years), superintendent (3 years), leadership academy director (1 year), assistant professor (6 years), associate professor (5 years), university department chair (concurrent 2 years). Published 4 book chapters and 24 articles about leadership, leading change, and professional learning; conducted 43 presentations (including The Whole Child) at national, regional, state, and local conferences. Member, Ohio Board of Regents blue ribbon panel for principal preparation programs; Ohio Council of Professors of Educational Administration president, president-elect, secretary and board; member, Midwestern Educational Research Association council and administration division cochair; member, Ohio Association of Secondary School Administrators program planning committee.