Master of Arts - Educational Leadership

Program Description

The purpose of this program is to prepare educational personnel for administrative and supervisory positions in schools, business, and a variety of human services agencies. This discipline-based program includes concepts, research findings, and models of inquiry in social sciences. The program is also theory and problem-based in that it addresses the relevant theories of organization, leadership, and curriculum and contemporary issues likely to confront administrators and supervisors, and other educational leaders. Finally, the program is career-based given that it focuses on the examination of administrative and supervisory functions and objectives within a variety of settings and for different purposes.

Learning Outcomes

Students will be able to:

• Promote the success of all students by:
• Facilitating the development, articulation, implementation, and stewardship of a vision of learning.
• Facilitating a vision of learning that is shared and supported by the school community
• Advocating, nurturing, and sustaining a school culture.
• Advocating, nurturing, and sustaining an instructional program conducive to student learning.
• Supporting and sustaining programs based on best practices that promote student learning.
• Advocating, nurturing, and sustaining staff professional growth.
• Ensuring management of the organization for a safe, efficient, and effective learning environment.
• Ensuring management of operations and resources for a safe, efficient, and effective learning environment.
• Understanding and using technology to enhance curriculum and student learning.
• Understanding, responding to, and influencing the larger political, social, economic, legal, and cultural context.
• Collaborating with families and community members, responding to diverse community interests and needs, and mobilizing community resources.
• Acting with integrity, and fairness.
• Acting in an ethical manner.
• Understand and use technology to enhance his/her own professional practice and school operations.
• Undertake independent inquiry and use technology as one tool to assist him or her in the overall inquiry process.
• Utilize their internship experience to apply knowledge, and practice and develop skills, through substantial, sustained, standards-based work in real settings.