EDUL - Educational Leadership

The Course provides an introduction to educational leadership: various theories and models of educational and school leadership and management; the strucure of education at the local, state, and national levels; and the New Your State Codes and Standards governing schools and school building leaders. This course also covers the foundational skills for leadership, the role and evaluation of the school principal; organizatinal structure of schools; collaborative and reflective leadership; and all wrapped in the ethical blanket of mission, vision and core values.

This course focuses on the operation and management admisinstrative systems that promote the mission and vision of the school and support each student's learning needs. These systems include resource management of fiscal, physical and staff resources, time management, data management, support services, and budegeting. Candidates also consider how school building leaders can employ technology and software to impore the quality and efficiency of these systems and be responsible, ethical, and accountable stewards of them.

The course examines the law and the principles of law as they apply to organization and administrtion of education at the local, state and national levels. Special attention will be paid to the laws, rules, regulations and court decisions that influence district employees, policy, administrative operations, and students; these include the Individuals with Disabilities Act, student freedoms, search adn seizure, teacher freedoms, and school liability.

This course examines human resources management and the development of the professional capacity and practive of school personnel. Topics addressed include the professional capacity of school personnel, Professional Learning Communities (PLC), supervision and evaluation, Annual Professional Performance Review (APPR) and observation instruments, plus recruitment, hiring, and retention.

This course examines coherent systems of curriculum, instruction, and assessment that are responsive to student needs, embody high expectations for student learning, align with academic standards within and across grade levels, and promote academic success and social emotional well-being for each student. Topics also include the capability to employ technically appropriate systems of assessment and data collection, management, analysis for use to monitor student progress and improve instruction.

This course explores the leadership competencies of problem solving and decision making as means for effective educational leaders to act as agents of continuous school improvement to promote each student's academic success and well-being and to achieve the vision, fulfill the mission, to promote the core values of the school, and to facilitate school improvement. This course also examines the application of these competiencies to effective communication, engagement, partnership, advocacy, and improvement.

This course explores how effective educational leaders engage families and the community in meaningful, reciprocal, and mutually beneficial ways to promote each student's academic success and well-being. The course assists candidates to learn to act with equity, cultural competence and responsiveness in their interactions, decision making, and practice to promote student learning and school improvement.

This course focuses exclusively on educational leadership at the district level and deals with issues that are unique to that level and type of leadership.

This first field-based course provides candidates with the opportunity to participate directly in activities related to administrative leadership at the school building level. The online component of this course offers opportunities for both synchronous and ashnchronous class discussion of topics raised by their experiences in the field. The intent of course is to form a Professional Learning Community (PLC) among candidates wherein they work with their mentors, the course instructor, and their course colleagues to enhance their professional development as school building leaders.

This second field-based course it the capstone for this degree and builds on the candidates' experiences in the first internship course and broadens the candidates' participation in administrative leadership at the school building level. The online component of this course offers opportunities for both synchronous and asynchronous class discussion of topics raised by their experiences in the field, and continues the Professional Learning Community (PLC) begun in the EDUL 640 course.