The Executive Director, Dr. Bruce E. Field, is responsible for the overall coordination of relations between the university and schools regarding clinical experiences and facilitates that role by communicating timely and accurate information to local schools and districts. Working with USC program faculty, the Executive Director helps establish policies and procedures for clinical experiences and ensures and facilitates the implementation of those policies and procedures. Specific roles of the Executive Director include:

• Hiring university supervisors;

• Assisting in the orientation of university supervisors, coaching teachers, and teacher candidates;

• Monitoring the operation of clinical experiences and intervening to help resolve problems;

• Assisting in the design of internship applications;

• Updating the ADEPT Handbook and the Clinical Experiences Manual and distributing copies of these documents to local schools and districts;

• Consulting with appropriate USC and school-based faculty and staff to identify quality schools and districts for participation in clinical experiences; and

• Directing USC's School-University Partnership Network, including overall coordination of that Network's Professional Development School (PDS) initiative.