ELP 6110 - Understanding & Leading Org. Change in Schools

This course focuses on understanding and developing the knowledge, skills, and dispositions needed to promote change in educational organizations, particularly changes that will increase educational equity in access and outcomes for all children. The content of the course includes theories and perspectives that inform how practitioners can lead organizational change, overcome resistance to change, and build organizational capacity. The course also assists aspiring educational leaders to evaluate existing beliefs and assumptions and in developing skills and dispositions to promote effective, equitable, and democratic change. Recommend ELP 6210 or ELP 7220 as a prerequisite for this course. Meets with ELP 7110. Students enrolled in 7110 will be held to a higher standard and may be assigned additional coursework.