2022-2023 Course List

.This course will introduce students to the ¿Courageous Conversations¿ protocol designed to facilitate healthy conversations about race, racial equity and social justice. Students will be introduced to the five tenants of Critical Race Theory (CRT) and learn how to isolate race, as they reflect on their own personal life experiences. Students will read relevant articles, discuss current events and examine common historical practices within the United States. Students will actively engage in dialogue focused on the role race and racism have in perpetuating social disparities between dominant and marginalized racial groups, and actively engage in small and large group discussions.

Goal Areas:

GE-07, GE-09

Diverse Cultures:

Purple

Practical experience in Educational Leadership.

This course provides students who are pursuing a second administrative license with an experiential experience as a school administrator.

This course is designed for aspiring educational leaders and is intended to provide experiential experience with the roles and responsibilities of a school superintendent. Embedded in the course are the internship requirements for Minnesota state administrative licensure for superintendent.

The intent of the Portfolio Review is to provide the student with a focused opportunity to construct and present a professional portfolio that will ultimately lead to Superintendent licensure. Students will document and present evidence of mastery of required competencies.

Communication and Leadership is a three credit graduate course designed to prepare aspiring leaders in PreK-12 and higher educational settings with the communication skills needed to lead effectively. Students will demonstrate knowledge and skill development through understanding, applying, analyzing, and evaluating communication practices to improve personal and professional effectiveness. Course design will offer a combination of readings, collegial discussion, individualized projects, presentations, and interactive exercises.

Equity and Education serves as a fundamental course of study in preparation of educational leaders. Students engage in discourse and examination of issues related to racial equity, achievement, teaching and leadership gaps. Through the lens of race, students will explore, read, discuss, write about and observe content that describes local and national educational issues. Students will study the work of leading authors who introduce protocols and practices for holding conversations about race. Students will apply and transfer knowledge about racial equity to educational settings.

Program Evaluation in Educational Leadership is a three credit graduate course designed to prepare aspiring leaders in PK-12 and higher educational settings. Students will demonstrate knowledge and skill development in understanding, applying, analyzing, and evaluating data collected. These steps will result in the design of a meaningful evaluation of a program within a PK-12 or higher education institution. Course design will offer a combination of readings, collegial discussion, program evaluation projects, presentation, and/or interactive exercises.

This three credit graduate course is designed to prepare educational leaders for the PreK-12 and higher education settings with the skills, knowledge, and dispositions to prepare learners for the 21C workforce. Students will demonstrate knowledge and skill development through applying, analyzing, and evaluating technological advances, changing practices and paradigms in educational systems,and leading system change. Course design will offer a combination of readings, collegial discussion, individualized projects, presentations, and interactive exercises. The effective use of various technologies will be used to enhance the students' awareness and use of applications for leadership, teaching and personalized learning.

This seminar provides an avenue for the exploration and investigation of special study topics in educational leadership.

This course is designed for students preparing for school leadership positions.It provides the conceptual framework for brain-based learning, neuroscience and culturally responsive classroom teaching. The goal is to develop racially conscious leaders who will, in turn, develop culturally responsive teachers.

This seminar explores the dynamics of organizational and systems change in theory and practice.

This is the introductory course for the Masters' in Educational Leadership program. The purpose of this course is to provide students with foundational knowledge in the area of leadership. Throughout this course students will explore what it means to be a leader and will review current research on leadership. They will also investigate the personal side of leadership and focus on skills needed to lead an organization.

Selected ethical/moral philosophies are studied using theoretical paradigms. Students become skilled at making ethical and moral decisions regarding every day dilemmas facing educational leaders.

This course examines past and current research theory and philosophy relative to leadership development in both formal and informal educational settings.

Surveys past and current research about women in leadership roles. The course will examine leadership through the lives of culturally diverse women who had both traditional and non-traditional roles.

Introduction to research methods as well as tools for becoming a critical consumer of the body of research that exists in educational leadership.

This course examines legal issues in educational settings.

The process by which candidates for school administration licensure document and present mastery level evidence of required competencies.

This course provides an overview of leadership in the educational setting.

This course examines how political influence and governance affect school policy.

This course develops skills in leading programs for students of special populations.

The course examines the role of the school leader within the function of supervision and evaluation.

This course is designed to provide students with knowledge about the practical experience in identifying potential funding sources; planning, writing, and evaluating grant proposals and implementing funded projects.

This course will focus on funding, organization, governance, processes, and structures of higher education.