| Course Code | Name | Course Description |
| IL7000-8 | The Culture of Learning | Skillful instructional leaders occupy many jobs within educational organizations. These jobs include principals, district administrators, teacher leaders, staff support, community organizers, and parents and students who accept leadership responsibilities. Anyone responsible for creating a culture of learning engages in instructional leadership tasks. Effective instructional leaders must be able to articulate essential links between instructional tasks, student learning, and organizational goals. In this course, doctoral Learners will explore myriad ways to engage these instructional domains. Through course activities, Learners will engage topics including technology integration, philosophically sound curriculum decision-making, visionary leadership traits, and curriculum management. |
| IL7001-8 | Leader as Advocate and Decision Maker | Instructional leaders are at the pinnacle of decision-making in any organization. Typically, decisions filter down through the ranks until outcomes reach and impact stakeholders. Decision-making requires careful consideration of the overlapping spheres of influence at work in educational organizations. It is essential that instructional leaders have a deep understanding of promoting vision and mission for the organization to meet its goals. One of the most important facets of this is when the leader acts as an educational advocate. Advocates promote positive leadership and learning and focus on effective core values, beliefs, and purpose of the educational endeavor. In this course, doctoral Learners will engage the complex decision-making concepts and processes while reflecting on staff development and instructional supervision. |
| IL7002-8 | Leader as Community Advocate | Instructional leaders must forge relationships with stakeholders in the community to build effective learning organizations. This is an era of heightened accountability and leaders need to be as transparent as possible with operational aspects of the school to allow community members to understand the intricacies of managing education organizations. In this course, doctoral Learners will develop the skills to seamlessly engage stakeholders in partnerships to enhance educational operations at all levels. The Learner will develop knowledge of professional learning communities and ways to stimulate community leadership. |
| ED7035-8 | Curriculum Supervision | This course is designed to expose doctoral Learners to theories of curriculum and instructional supervision and the design of instructional systems. Emphasis will be on translating theory into practice, particularly for curriculum supervision in public or private schools and/or in industry training. This course provides an overview of theories, principles, practices, and issues in curriculum supervision. It explores the pedagogical and curricular requirements of schools and integrates theory and practice. This course focuses on the design, implementation and evaluation of curricula. Doctoral Learners will develop the skills and knowledge required to design and manage curricula resources and delivery to ensure congruence among the written, taught, and tested curricula. The course also explores issues of equitable instructional programs, materials, and products that support student achievement and institutional goals. |
| ED7030-8 | Development of Organizational Leadership | In this course, doctoral Learners will explore classic and contemporary approaches to organizational development. Learners will define authentic leadership and effectiveness, and will explore what it means to work mindfully while applying principles of authenticity, integrity, and purposefulness. Doctoral Learners will explore preferred communication styles, cultivate relationships, develop strategies, and evaluate optimal strategies for organizational growth. Learners will be introduced to the doctrines of organizational development, theory, and techniques. Attention will be given to these concepts within today’s fast paced working and educational environments. |
| ED7036-8 | Innovation for Change | Doctoral learners will employ creative skills, manage innovation, and hone techniques to promote imaginative and flexible change strategies. Education is constantly reinventing itself in order to meet the demands of society. Instructional leaders must be ready to interpret and shape the school organization based on the ideals put forth at the time, by a changing world. School leadership requires and ability to conceptualize and realize a vision for the organization. Change involves knowledge, understanding, and commitment from administrators and cannot be construed as an event but rather a process. Further, change involves working with a diverse group of people and striving to motivate others to muscle through change as it is needed. Leaders must work with a community and use change to implement desirable changes. School leaders are constantly making decisions that impact the school organization. This course will prepare doctoral learners to negotiate the world of education innovation and change. |
