Students will participate in a variety of self-assessment activities, simulations, and group discussions designed to provide information about and insight into effective leadership in schools. Offered at least once a year.
Fall 2024 - Hybrid Winter 2025 - Hybrid
Study of a variety of organizational development approaches used in leading staff through curriculum development. Topics include preplanning, principles of curriculum decision-making, effective schools research, participatory strategies for curriculum problem solving, and the process of change. Emphasis on leadership skill building. May be combined with EDL 652. Offered at least twice a year.
Fall 2024 - Online Winter 2025 - Hybrid
Emphasis on enabling leaders to generate the tools to improve elementary schools. Topics include organizational development, problem solving, goal setting, organizational change, employee motivation and communication, resolution of conflicts, and clinical supervision and evaluation. Analysis of topics will emphasize effects research and descriptive theory. Offered at least once a year.
Responsibilities in staff supervision, staffing needs, certification, selection, assignment, promotion, salaries, retirement, absences, teachers' organizations, grievances, collective bargaining, and supervision of student teachers. Offered once a year.
Winter 2025 - Online
General legal principles and laws that affect general and special education. Emphasis on sources and scope of school law, legal rights and responsibilities of teachers, pupils, and taxpayers. Procedural, historical, and jurisprudential dimensions of American law are stressed. Offered at least once a year.
Fall 2024 - Online Winter 2025 - Online
Emphasis on giving leaders the tools to make ongoing improvement in secondary schools. Topics include organizational development, problem solving, goal setting, organizational change, employee motivation, and communication, resolution of conflicts, and clinical supervision and evaluation. Analysis of topics will emphasize effects research and descriptive theory. Offered at least once a year.
Fall 2024 - Hybrid Winter 2025 - Online
This course is designed to assist school leaders in developing an effective school community relations plan. Emphasis will be on creating effective communications formats to address internal and external populations. Candidates will be actively involved in the process of creating positive communication plans that will help gain support for the school's program.
This course is designed to develop understanding and skills associated with generating a school culture that is responsive to change/reform and embodies the philosophical underpinnings of systemic change. Students will research and discuss theories of organizational change and explore various strategies to bring these theories into practice through administrative leadership. Offered at least once a year.
This course discusses multiple approaches to the study of educational organizations including the application of organizational theory to improve decision-making and organizational outcomes. It examines the human behavior in educational organizations. The course also provides students with an understanding of the moral and ethical dimensions of leadership in education. Offered at least once a year.
Fall 2024 - Online
This course will review the legal framework of education and various legal issues that are imperative for educational leaders to be able to identify, understand, and incorporate within their administrative responsibilities. Emphasis is placed on the legal framework with a focus on discipline, equity, and personnel issues. Offered at least once a year.
This course will provide a broad view of the roles and responsibilities of the superintendent of schools. Areas of study include developing a vision; establishing policies; decision-making; establishing relationships with the Board of Education, staff, students, and community; curriculum/instruction; human resources; politics and education in a larger context. Offered at least once a year.
Winter 2025 - Hybrid
