2025 SPE Outstanding Book Award Honorable Mention The IMPACT of the Scholarly Practitioner Doctorate: Developing Socially-Just Leaders to Make Equitable Change is a collection of shared counternarratives between EdD alums and their supervising professor mentors, detailing their dissertation in practice (DiP) journeys as scholarly practitioners and the impact of the scholarly practitioner doctorate on their paths from doctoral students to socially-just leaders in a wide range of educational fields. The IMPACT of the Scholarly Practitioner Doctorate posits these relationships as the catalyst in bringing theory learned in course work to scholarly research that is positioned within practice, focused on contributing to equity-centered work. The book serves as an exemplar learning companion to a wide audience and diverse EdD programs looking to modify, develop, or redesign their programs to align with The Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED) concepts including signature pedagogy, laboratories of practice, inquiry as practice and mentoring and advising. The IMPACT of the Scholarly Practitioner Doctorate demonstrates how change in education, community, and organizations have been impacted in efficacious ways. EdD students and their supervising professors, faculty, and administrators will be able to use this book’s content as their own catalyst for building socially-just leadership knowledge, skills, and dispositions while preparing their EdD students to exhibit equitable change in the professional practice areas they are in. Perfect for courses such as: Introduction to Educational Research; Social Justice Education Foundations; Leadership for Equity and Social Change; Transformative Leadership; Foundations of Inquiry for Social Justice; Qualitative Inquiry for Social Justice; Critical Perspectives for Equity in Education; Engaging in Critical Social Theories for Designing Research for Equity and Social Justice; Reform and Change for Social Justice; Educational Leadership Development “ The IMPACT of the Scholarly Practitioner Doctorate: Developing Socially-Just Leaders to Make Equitable Change provides a timely and thoughtfully varied presentation of how the education doctorate effectively develops leaders focused on equity and social justice. It notably demonstrates the power of the education doctorate as a catalyst for fostering improvement and instigating change. Smith Budhai and Hill have carefully curated a collection of chapters, each one showcasing a unique social justice context, inviting a broad range of readers to feel included in this vital conversation. This edited volume holds immense value for all education doctorate faculty and students who are passionately committed to social justice and for leaders seeking inspiration and courage to pursue this needed work.” -- Christopher Benedetti, PhD, Associate Professor of Educational Leadership, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi “The edited collection, The Impact of the Scholar-Practitioner Doctorate: Developing Socially-Just Leaders to Make Equitable Change , embodies guidelines from the CPED that focus on equity, ethics, and social justice.Authored by Ed.D. faculty and students, each chapter’s narrative will inspire educators to challenge educational hegemonic norms, while encouraging future professionals to use their degree for creating a better world. With its rich stories and unwavering focus on socially-just leadership, this book shares practical approaches for developing transformative facilitators who can bring authentic social/ecological justice and respect for diversity into teaching and learning.” -- Four Arrows, author of "Teaching Truly: A Curriculum to Indigenize Mainstream Education, and Restoring the Kinship Worldview" “Smith Budhai and Hill’s compilation, The IMPACT of the Scholarly Practitioner Doctorate: Developing Socially-Just Leaders to Make Equitable Change , is a much-needed textbook for anyone aspiring to instill praxis in today’s political realm of education. Within it, readers will learn of the impact of Black Feminist Theory on rising scholar-practitioners, complexities of conducting social justice-grounded research in schools, development and continuance of the mentor-mentee relationship beyond the dissertation, and numerous examples of socially just leadership in action. This textbook is significant for advancing the critical consciousness of EdD faculty and the programs they lead.” -- Ricardo Garcia, PhD, Lecturer, Department of Educational Administration, Doctor of Education in Leadership for Organizations, University of Dayton “Authors in The IMPACT of the Scholarly Practitioner Doctorate: Developing Socially-Just Leaders to Make Equitable Change creatively and bravely take on the challenge of exploring the impact of the scholarly practitioner doctorate on equity-centered work. Drawing from various theories, styles of writing, and angles to examine the EdD experience, the book offers readers