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EDAD 6800 Facilitating Effective Learning for All Students (3 sem. cr.)
This course introduces research on learning and develops an understanding of how different approaches to instruction are informed by research. To move teaching to more effective strategies, leaders learn to explain how and why learner-centered teaching enhances the achievement of all students, and learn how to overcome resistance among staff, students, and parents.
EDAD 6801 Ensuring Quality Education for Students With Diverse Needs (3 sem. cr.)
This course focuses on effective, learner-centered instruction that uses diverse and inclusive approaches for students at risk, as educators help all students reach increasingly higher standards of performance.
EDAD 6802 Using Data to Strengthen Schools (3 sem. cr.)
This course focuses on data-driven decision-making and the critical skills necessary to meet the needs of all children and to reach accountability expectations. Special emphasis is placed on the definition of action for effective schools—continuing analysis of the gaps between goals for student learning and actual student performance.
EDAD 6803 Allocating Resources Strategically and Structuring the Organization for Learning (3 sem. cr.)
This course focuses on research about effective schools, to provide guidance on the most productive ways to organize resources: time, people, money, and technology. Students learn to develop strategies to define the most important priorities, the overall educational design, and the organizational structures that best match the needs for improvement.
EDAD 6804 Enhancing Teacher Capacity and Commitment (3 sem. cr.)
This course focuses on the central role of school leaders—building human resources, from recruitment through induction to continuing professional development. It also covers methods for dealing with continuing ineffectiveness among members of school staff.
EDAD 6805 Facilitating Productive Working Relationships and School Culture to Enhance Student Learning (3 sem. cr.)
This course addresses critical functions of the school leader, including developing consensus that promotes action (effective decision-making process, patterns of communication, conflict resolution strategies); infusing leadership throughout the school (collaborative structures and strategies); and establishing a personal, ethical, and moral platform for leadership.
EDAD 6806 Collaborating With Families and Communities for Student Success (3 sem. cr.)
In this course, students develop the capabilities needed to identify and enlist the support of parents, as well as organizations and public agencies that serve youth and families, in ways that align with school goals. Special attention is paid to these functions in multicultural schools and communities.
EDAD 6807 Creating Positive, Safe, and Effective Learning Environments (3 sem. cr.)
Students in this course learn to treat differences and conflicts as opportunities for learning the social competencies that are essential to civic participation and interpersonal effectiveness, in school and beyond. The importance of safe and orderly environments for learning, with school cultures based on mutual respect among students, teachers, and staff, is recognized.
EDAD 6808 Meeting the Literacy Challenge: Leading New Initiatives (3 sem. cr.)
Literacy is at the core of success—in school and in life. The emphasis of this course is on what has been learned about teaching and learning, student assessment, professional development, parental and community involvement, and other related topics. Issues of curriculum and the effects of district and state policies on school improvement are explored in greater depth.
EDAD 6809 Implementing Continuous School Improvement (3 sem. cr.)
This course focuses on theories of change, with an emphasis on leadership behavior that promotes positive change over time. Based on the context of systems thinking, students demonstrate what it takes to structure a school that is a learning organization.
EDAD 6811 Internship 1 (3 sem. cr.)
This course provides students with authentic opportunities to apply what has been learned in courses and to expand what future educational leaders need to know and be able to do. The internship includes three components: practical applications of learning within courses, internship experiences while taking other courses, and development and evaluation of the Program Portfolio.
EDAD 6812 Internship 2 (3 sem. cr.)
This course provides students with authentic opportunities to apply what has been learned in courses and to expand what future educational leaders need to know and be able to do. The internship includes three components: practical applications of learning within courses, internship experiences while taking other courses, and development and evaluation of the Program Portfolio.
