早在康科迪亚之前, 作为一名教师和行政人员, Vendetta had a passion for being a voice for the children in her school district and was particularly vocal about the fact that the children weren't reading and writing at acceptable levels. Her time 在欧文的康考迪亚大学 served to deepen her passion with respect to this issue, 并激励她继续在她的社区工作，以提高识字率.
Please tell us about what you consider to be one of the biggest impacts you are making/have made in one of your respective communities.
当被问及她对社区的积极影响时, 多兹尔·布朗回应道, 她说:“我一直有一种说出来的激情.” The recently retired principal has indeed spent much of her career in administration speaking up for others in her community. She likes to consider herself a voice for the entire district and has found herself speaking up not just for her own teachers and students, 而是为了她所在地区的所有老师和学生. Long before the era of Common Core she saw that kids weren’t reading and writing at acceptable levels and sounded the alarm.
你对这个社区的不同需求有什么了解?
Vendetta was already an established administrator when she started her doctorate with 欧文康考迪亚大学 but working on her dissertation gave her the opportunity to look more deeply at some of the big issues plaguing her community. This in-depth exploration made her not only a better administrator but also better steward of those under her leadership and in her care.
Regarding her teachers she learned that she needed to examine herself when looking at their needs and ask, “你是否有同理心? Are you considering all of the aspects of what the teacher is bringing to the classroom? 你支持我吗??” She also learned that as a leader she couldn’t make assumptions about their abilities and that by taking on a less authoritative stance she could let them do more. 当她允许并鼓励他们参与领导工作时，就等于认可了他们, 帮助了她，把每个人都推向了一个新的关爱水平, “一个关心他人的教职员工会激励其他人.我看到人们更相信孩子.”
Regarding her students she reaffirmed what she always knew that even though kids came from rough backgrounds and neighborhoods, 父母仍然希望他们得到良好的教育.
How was your research/study as part of CUI’s EDD program helped you address the needs of this community?
For her dissertation Vendetta conducted a deep dive into the literature to learn about cognitive constructivist learning theory and CBAM Concerns-Based Adoption Model (CBAM) Stages of Concern. This in-depth research gave her the theoretical basis for both the quantitative and qualitative pieces of her study. There isn’t enough space in this small vignette to explain the substance of her dissertation, but what she found when all was said and done was that a) the writing intervention really worked and b) her approach to working with the teachers who were administering the intervention was spot on!
Vendetta has been encouraged by her Dissertation Chair and committee members to take the results of her study to the District for consideration of broad use and also to write a journal article outlining her findings. These activities will allow her 欧文康考迪亚大学 research to not only meet the needs of her community but also of many others.
How have you used your research or experience to develop strategies to meet these needs?
The “glaring issue” was the fact that the Common Core gives standards with no direction for implementing them. “各学区只需要提供大量信息给教师.这让她感到担忧的是，加州的一些地区并没有采取补救措施. “共同核心说，孩子们需要能够做X，但我们如何让他们做到这一点?” This was the impetus for Vendetta’s study and context for moving forward with such zeal.
But her dissertation research wasn’t the only aspect of her CUI EdD experience that helped spur her passion and shape her strategy to meet the writing needs of the children and the teaching needs of the teachers. 课程作业, trips and research worked together to teach her to reflect on where we are and where we need to go as a state and as a district. The trip to DC was eye opening and the research she did on test scores in the DC area while she was there actually made her angry! “1%的学生能在一些学校取得成功! 他们怎么能允许呢. 难道这里没有用心的老师吗? This is my former community and these are low income kids who will never have a chance if something isn't done!” The Leadership courses impacted how she worked with teachers and in her words made her a better leader. In those courses she leaned about servant leadership and how to look beneath the surface before you can make an impact on the top. 她发现自己在问:“我是什么样的领导? 我想成为什么样的领导?”
你参与这个社区对你生活的其他方面有什么影响?
社区里以小写字母c开头的人，斯托克顿, 斯托克顿联队对仇杀队很重要. 这些是和她一起生活的人. 她在这个社区生活、做礼拜、购物和工作. 她的孩子、家人和朋友都在这里. 她的社区就是她的生命.
以大写字母“C”开头的社区, 学龄儿童, 到处都是她的老师和行政人员.Now that she has retired from district and completed her EDD she is looking for new ways to impact communities where students are struggling. She has been energized by the research and by the work and is now eager for the next step for herself. Vendetta说:“它必须有影响力，让孩子们进入下一个阶段。.
虽然我们可能还不知道下一步是什么, we, 她的康考迪亚大学欧文分校社区知道这一点. 仇杀队的激情会产生影响.
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在哪些方面，如果有的话，Ed.D. program enhanced your ability to assess and develop positions/programs/interventions to respond to the needs of this community?
It has enabled me to conduct research that will be important for promoting writing and literacy in Stockton and beyond.