Most of the content at this site has been transferred to my new main site: https://chrisdavisphd.com I started using drcmdavis as my Google/Gmail login a long time ago, and a best practice is to use your social network id in your domain name. I still use "drcmdavis" on LinkedIn and Twitter. I was building this out as my primary domain name when I opened a business bank account and realized that when spoken versus typed the "dr" prefix can mean "dr" or "doctor." To avoid future confusion, I started using "chrisdavisphd" as a domain. I think this is clearer and easier to remember. At first, I was going to leave this site for blogging purposes. Ir runs on Blogger which is a great Google tool. Eventually I decided I wanted to simplify and move the blog to the server with my web site. Because I have given this site out in the past, though, and it is hard coded into my first book, I cannot simply remove the site. Really all you need...
The paper reviews the use of Appreciative Inquiry as a framework for professional and organizational development as part of an initiative to improve student outcomes in developmental education courses in a multi-campus college. AI is a strengths-based approach to organizational change. In most change efforts in education, faculty resist change that creates cognitive dissonance, Bluntly, no one wants to hear how they are a bad teacher. AI provides a context where faculty are drawn towards a vision for the future that avoids focusing on the past. Accessed from my selected works at bepress.