ELP 6400 - Foundations of K-12 Educational Organizations, Policy & Leadership

This course provides an historical overview and context for understanding defining issues facing educational leaders in the American education sector. As an integrating course for the Department's Master in Educational Leadership and licensure programs, it provides a venue for helping students synthesize many of the broad themes, tensions, values and possibilities that define the leadership challenge. This course also provides opportunities for students to critically reflect on these issues in relationship to the valued ends of schooling: effectiveness, democracy and social justice. Students enrolled in 7400 will be held to a higher standard and may be assigned additional coursework.