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Human Resource Administration听听

Addresses fundamental school personnel functions such as hiring, retention, socialization, rewards and sanctions, and performance appraisal. These functions, however, are situated in a broader approach to the human and professional development of school personnel in a learning organization. Situates human resource development within the larger agenda of increased quality of student learning and teacher development.

Ethics for District Leaders听

The course explores how schools are used as a vehicle of the state to de-culturalize various communities of people throughout the country's history. Students will explore how schools can more appropriately promote respect for valuing diversity as a generative source of the country's vitality and its relationship to the global village. The role of educators is not only to act ethically in the many individual situations of their daily professional lives, but more importantly to see that the institutional structures and processes of the school system are themselves reflections of a system of justice and care.

Education Law for District Leaders

This course addresses the political and legal aspects of the role of education in our democratic society. Provides an introductory survey of public policy issues and laws governing preschool, elementary, and secondary school with a specific focus on the role of school district leadership. Included are such topics as religious freedom, free speech, and due process; the liability of educational institutions and educators; the legal distinctions between private and public institutions; student and parent privacy rights; disability rights; and the promotion of educational equity among all groups regardless of gender, sexual orientation, language, race, religion, ethnicity, or socioeconomic background.

Theories of Leadership: District Focus

This course is an introduction to and survey of major historical and contemporary theories of educational leadership. Through this course, you will learn about these different theories of leadership, each of which can be of use when researching or evaluating district-level dilemmas, problems, and critical incidents you will encounter in your sites of professional practice. One of the overarching objectives of this course is to help you enter into research-based conversations about educational leadership (as emerging researchers of educational leadership) by understanding how 鈥渕ajor thinkers鈥� have thought through the essential questions defining educational leadership as a field of study. The other overarching objective is to provide you the space to enhance your practical wisdom by thinking through how to enact a grounded theory of leadership in your site of professional practice.

Leadership for Social Justice: District Focus听

This course introduces students to the theory and practice of leadership for social justice at the school and district level. Definitions, approaches, and controversies in this emerging field will be examined. Readings, films, class discussions, and case studies related to the topics of race, ethnicity, culture, language, gender, social class, religion, sexual orientation, and disability will focus on how these issues affect educators, students and their families in today's K-12 schools. In particular, students will learn about leadership which is culturally and linguistically responsive; strengthens parent-community-school relationships; and formulates diversity policies to promote educational equity for students from diverse groups.

District Level Instructional Leadership听

Introduces students to many of the contested issues in the field of supervision, such as the relationship between supervision and teacher development, teacher empowerment, teacher alienation, learning theories, school effectiveness, school restructuring, curriculum development, and scientific management. Supervision will be viewed also as a moral, community-nested, artistic, motivating, and collaborative activity. Will stress the need for a restructuring of supervision as an institutional process.

Seminar on Education Reform

This interdisciplinary seminar addresses the role of law in education reform and the relationship between law and social science in efforts to promote educational attainment in the nation's elementary and secondary schools. The primary focus will be contemporary education reform issues, including educator quality, access to meaningful opportunity to learn, curriculum control, and student, teacher, administrator, and parental rights. The focus of the course will be inquiry on the role of law in school reform, the limits of law-based education reform, and the consequences of statutory requirements for scientific evidence-based approaches to education programs.

Research Design I听

This course introduces students to the fundamentals of designing and reporting research. Our level of focus is the skills and knowledge necessary for conceptualizing and crafting research projects. This includes developing familiarity with a variety of methods and designs, selecting researchable problems, and prototyping study designs in accord with particular theoretical lenses.

Research Design II听

This course builds on Research Design I to provide tools and training to support the dissertation-in-practice. The course will deepen students鈥� understanding of key concepts in education research and how to use research in educational leadership to transform schools and systems of schools. As part of this specialized course for PSAP candidates, students will carefully examine the parts of a dissertation proposal, developing both their group and individual proposals. Students will critically examine the processes of empirical inquiry, including (a) formulating research questions from literature reviews, (b) articulating conceptual frameworks, and (c) formalizing methodology.

Research Design III

This course focuses on the skills of analyzing and reporting qualitative research findings. It is organized as a graduate seminar or workshop: students will learn by doing. In such a setting, the instructors and students work together as colleagues, offering each other individualized feedback or assistance. By the end of this course, students should have: (a) conceptual knowledge about data analysis; (b) practical knowledge about analyzing and reporting research; and (c) a summary of findings for their independent research projects.

Dissertation in Practice Seminar

Dissertation seminar related course work for advanced doctoral students.听

Dissertation in Practice Direction

Dissertation related course work for advanced doctoral students.听

Dissertation in Practice Group Direction

Dissertation related course work for advanced doctoral students.听