EDAD 501 Leading and Managing for Teaching and Learning

Content: This course investigates the "big picture" of schooling and administration. It addresses the school as an organization, the role of the administrator as an educational leader, systems organization, change as a process, leadership theory and development, visionary leadership principles and actions, resources management and allocation, communication strategies, and school improvement as the framework for the improvement of student learning.
Prerequisites: None.
Credits: 3 semester hours.

EDAD 502 Instructional Leadership

Content: Focus on instructional leadership and how it connects to the complex relationships between teacher growth and development (supervision/evaluation), professional development, and standards-based school improvement. Draws from research on effective teaching to assist leaders in improving instructional practices. Students learn to capitalize on the diversity of the school community to improve teaching for all students.
Prerequisites: None.
Credits: 3 semester hours.

EDAD 504 Ethics, Policy, and the Law

Content: Study of the principles of ethical leadership and working successfully in the larger political, social, economic, legal, and cultural environment of an educational system. Examination of landmark legal cases, federal policies, state and local laws, and regulations impacting school systems. Exploration of social justice avocation through access and equity issues that promote equitable learning for students. Discussions of the roles and responsibilities of policy makers and stakeholders.
Prerequisites: None.
Credits: 2 semester hours.

EDAD 508 Engaging the Community for Effective Schools

Content: Research shows students perform better in schools having strong community support. This course defines community engagement, identifies the critical stakeholders, and develops inclusive involvement and collaboration strategies. District demographic data, needs assessments, and socioeconomic factors are used for developing community engagement plans while taking into account categories of diversity (cultural, ethnic, racial, economic). Includes discussions of successful community engagement models.
Prerequisites: None.
Credits: 2 semester hours.

EDAD 509 Using Data for School Improvement

Content: Builds a common knowledge base for understanding the critical role data plays in school improvement efforts. Introduces several levels of data use and application, moving from state accountability requirements to equalizing access of high standards for all students. Participants collect, analyze, communicate, and use various forms of data in school visioning, improvement planning, and decision making.
Prerequisites: None.
Credits: 2 semester hours.

EDAD 511 School Budget and Operations

Content: Reviews the basic concepts of school finance and operational management at the state and district levels, and explores how to apply them when leading a school. Students acquire skills to lead and collaborate with others in the efficient and equitable allocation of resources--human, fiscal, and technological--to achieve equity and social justice, as well as academic success for diverse learners.
Prerequisites: None.
Credits: 2 semester hours.

EDAD 518 Practicum for School Administrators I

Content: The first of two semesters of a supervised, onsite, pre-designed administrative experience, along with campus seminars involving activities, discussions, and presentations. Students explore the content knowledge, leadership, collaboration, and research skills necessary for successful school administration in early childhood/elementary and middle school/high school settings under the direction of experienced site and campus supervisors.
Prerequisites: Completion of at least two Initial Administrator License courses.
Restrictions: Admission to the Initial Administrator License program.
Credits: 1-2.5 semester hours.

EDAD 519 Practicum for School Administrators II

Content: Second of two semesters of supervised, onsite, pre-designed administrative experience along with campus seminars involving activities, discussions, and presentations. Students explore the essential content knowledge, leadership, collaboration, and research skills necessary for successful school administration in early childhood/elementary and middle school/high school under the supervision of experienced site and campus supervisors.
Prerequisites: Completion of at least two Initial Administrator License courses.
Restrictions: Admission to the Initial Administrator License program.
Credits: 2-3 semester hours.

EDAD 549 Professional Mentorship and Seminar

Content: The Professional Mentorship and Seminar course is one academic year in length. Students must have a minimum of 3 years as a practicing administrator in order to enroll in the class. Upon successful completion of a 220 hour practicum and compilation of a portfolio demonstrating competency in each of the administrative standards a credit/no credit grade will be submitted to the campus advisor who will audit the student's transcript and determine their eligibility for Continuing Administrator License program completion.
Prerequisites: None.
Restrictions: Initial Administrator License; minimum of three years as a practicing administrator.
Credits: 2 semester hours.

EDAD 523 Communication Skills and Conflict Resolution

Content: Although many factors are thought to contribute to administrative effectiveness, the role of communication between and among different groups is not fully understood. Drawing from research on this topic, this course examines communication processes as they apply to personnel and group effectiveness in a variety of settings, including site-based councils. Students explore the dynamics of communication between ethnic and social groups, investigate strategies for improving the content knowledge of problem-solving, and examine the role of communication as it relates to trust an credibility in different settings.
Prerequisites: None.
Credits: 2 semester hours.

EDAD 540 Organizational Change for Action

Content: Examine the factors and influences that move organizations to change. Students will explore creating conditions for change, planning for change, implementing change, and sustaining change. Successfully engaging others in change initiatives will also be explored.
Prerequisites: None.
Credits: 2 semester hours.

EDAD 547 Ethical Leadership and Decision-Making

Content: During this course, we will explore a variety of questions that relate to ethical dilemmas we face as education leaders and how to include character education into daily life in the learning community. We will look at these matters and attempt to discover ethical questions that may not so easily present themselves or are not readily obvious to us. Our primary mode of exploration will be reading and dialogue.
Prerequisites: None.
Credits: 2 semester hours.

EDAD 553 Priority Leadership: Leading Systemic Change

Content: Priority leadership is a leadership framework of 10 continua based on research and evidence-based systems that produce results: planning to vision; goals to priorities; policy to targets to opportunity; problem-solving to capacity-building; fear of separation to relationship and teamwork; controlled management to shared leadership; hidden agendas to authentic listening; conformance to performance; tradition to data to reflection; arrival to growth. Lessons from each continuum are illustrated and used as examples to demonstrate the critical role leadership plays in showing improvement and obtaining results. In addition to covering the continua, the course includes an individual priority leadership assessment and personal action plan that will improve the leadership performance of participants.
Prerequisites: None.
Restrictions: Initial Administrator License and current administrative position.
Credits: 2 semester hours.

EDAD 559 Collaborative Leadership and Team-Building

Content: The term "collaborative leadership" describes an emerging body of theory and management practice that is focused on the leadership skills needed to deliver results across organizational boundaries. This course focuses on the intensification of leadership as a means to increase engagement with the organization. Collaborative leadership styles and techniques will be analyzed, compared, and tested in different contexts to determine their efficacy and applicability to educational settings. Diagnosing school cultures, developing alliances, creating networks to promote healthy schools, and managing the enduring dilemmas of time and accountability will be explored and evaluated. The art of collaboration will be modeled and practiced.
Prerequisites: None.
Credits: 2 semester hours.

EDAD 532 Leading Difficult and Underperforming People to Excellence

Content: The course is designed to provide practicing school administrators with knowledge, skills and support to work with adults from diverse and multicultural backgrounds, primarily teachers, whose performance is not acceptable. The course is not a clinical supervision course. Students will continue to develop administrative awareness of personal attitudes and beliefs about competence and success of teachers based on gender, ethnic background and social class. Course topics include effective hiring and retention practices, diagnosis of causes for unacceptable teacher performance, objective documentation of teacher performance, the legal basis for supervising and evaluating teachers, review of and familiarization with district evaluation documents, analysis of personal leadership approaches and behaviors, assessing teacher competence and potential for growth, and finally, discussion of relevant technology which supports effective supervision.
Prerequisites: None.
Restrictions: Initial Administrator License and current school administration position.
Credits: 2 semester hours.

EDAD 533 Professional Development for Instructional Leaders

Content: Application of research on professional development, teaching, and learning for instructional leaders. Participants examine approaches to teacher learning that cultivate long-term sustained support between colleagues, including mentoring, peer coaching, professional portfolios, collaborative teaching and research, and reflective practices. Topics include research on adult development, learning theory, instructional theory, and comprehensive programs for at-risk students. This research provides a basis for developing systematic professional development programs that are sensitive to changing school cultures and that cultivate staff and student diversity and continuous learning. Appropriate for students considering careers in educational administration.
Prerequisites: None.
Credits: 2 semester hours.

EDAD 536 Leading Schools Through Instructional Technologies

Content: Broad overview of the ever-changing technology landscape. Participants get hands-on experience using educational and management technologies. Topics include research on technology in education. Administrators learn to make informed decisions about technology while increasing personal skills in its use.
Prerequisites: None.
Credits: 2 semester hours.

EDAD 537 Educational Research and Assessment

Content: Qualitative and quantitative interpretation of educational research with emphasis on applying action research principles to promote achievement for diverse student groups. Students analyze achievement data and alternative forms of assessment in their schools and districts. Emphasis on mandates for certificates of mastery, portfolio construction, task building, scoring rubrics, and the need to focus on assessment for learning.
Prerequisites: None.
Credits: 2 semester hours.

EDAD 548 Transforming Culture and Inspiring Innovation

Content: Student academic growth is an enormous responsibility, one that challenges school and district leaders. Research shows developing a culture of collaboration and innovation positively impacts student achievement. This course pushes practicing administrators to examine dilemmas of professional life and leadership, to review current educational innovations in leadership and organizational change, to explore who they are as learners and leaders, and to reflect on how they can positively affect both adult and student learning. Students investigate a dilemma they have faced in their work life and prepare a case study presentation and overview document.
Prerequisites: None.
Credits: 2 semester hours.

EDAD 535 Managing Facilities and Resources

Content: School leaders are charged with doing more than simply managing students and learning. The school environment, physical plant, and ancillary services play a critical role in student learning and staff effectiveness. This course focuses on the management and oversight of a school's physical plant and ancillary services that contribute to the maintenance and operation of such a facility. Areas of focus for the course include: facilities management, personnel management, student management, office management, auxiliary services, management of special services, fiscal management, time management, and resource management. Case studies and real examples from participating students will contribute to course topics.
Prerequisites: None.
Credits: 2 semester hours.

EDAD 546 Negotiation, Collective Bargaining, and Contract Management

Content: The superintendent, central office personnel and school building administrators must be familiar with the labor agreement governing employment practices within each school. There are clear responsibilities for maintaining agreements reached through the collective bargaining process. When the provisions of the collective bargaining agreement (also known as the employment contract) are violated or are alleged to have been violated, a grievance procedure is initiated. Administrators must be familiar with the grievance procedure for resolving the dispute, including binding arbitration as a final step.
Prerequisites: None.
Credits: 2 semester hours.

EDAD 555 Building Positive Behavior Supports for All Students

Content: In the past, school-wide discipline has focused mainly on reacting to specific student misbehavior by implementing punishment-based strategies. Research during the past 20 years has shown that school-wide behavior systems that are positively focused on desired behaviors can result in a substantive lifestyle impact for all members of a school community. This course will examine the systems-based approach for implementing culturally proficient, multi-tiered, school-wide behavior supports.
Prerequisites: None.
Restrictions: Initial Administrator License.
Credits: 2 semester hours.

EDAD 556 School Finance and District Budgeting

Content: Advanced budgeting concepts for district-level administrators with emphasis on how long-range planning, facilities management, and special programs designed to eliminate achievement disparities affect the annual budget-making process.
Prerequisites: None.
Credits: 1-2 semester hours.

EDAD 577 Advanced Colloquium for Practicing Administrators

Content: Practicing administrators develop content knowledge about the issues and challenges they encounter in their work in schools, learning to apply current research and leadership skills to successfully resolve leadership dilemmas. A variety of facilitation protocols will be introduced and modeled to promote class interaction and demonstrate possible applications in school settings. Students will develop peer support networks and professional connections to assist them in making difficult decisions and sustaining high quality school leadership.
Prerequisites: None.
Restrictions: Initial Administrator License and current school administration position.
Credits: 2 semester hours.

EDAD 531 Administrators' Colloquium for School Equity

Content: The lenses of equity and social justice are applied to contemporary school issues that impact student learning and school success. Administrators examine their own cultural heritage and perspectives to understand how personal experiences influence administrative behaviors and leadership. The course is designed for administrators in their beginning years of administrative experience.
Prerequisites: None.
Restrictions: Initial Administrator License and current school administration position.
Credits: 2 semester hours.

EDAD 551 Legal and Procedural Aspects of Special Education

Content: This course will provide opportunities for administrators to increase their knowledge and skills based on current, relevant research in the areas of instruction, assessment and accountability, program/service support and supervision and legal requirements for special education and students who are culturally and linguistically diverse.
Prerequisites: None.
Credits: 2 semester hours.

EDAD 552 Culturally Responsive Practices for School Leaders

Content: This course will provide administrators with opportunities to investigate assumptions that guide behavior and to gain firsthand knowledge of the family life and culture of students from various ethnic and socioeconomic groups. Through planned readings, learning activities, and self assessments, participants examine their own attitudes about individuals from other cultures and groups. Topics include ways to improve school programs that provide services to students from diverse populations. Participants will also have the opportunity to reflect on their own culture, assumptions, and beliefs.
Prerequisites: None.
Credits: 2 semester hours.

EDAD 567 Developing Leadership Intelligences

Content: "Intelligence lenses" aid administrators in sorting problems from external influences and personal perceptions. A variety of exercises and activities will be practiced throughout the course to sharpen various intelligence lenses--emotional, social, political--necessary for sound leadership decisions and processes. The class will use authentic school and real-world dillemas. Strengths Finder will be utilized as a tool to acquaint students with their strength lenses and provide strategies on how to develop other perspectives.
Prerequisites: None.
Credits: 2 semester hours.

EDAD 574 Foundations for Administrators in the Education of English Language Learners

Content: Designed to prepare administrators for meeting the cultural, linguistic, and academic needs of English language learners. The course will include an explanation of cultural competency through the lens of race, culture, and language, and review literature on effective ways to work with diverse families and communities. An overview of language acquisition theory with a focus on program components will be provided. Program design, models, and approaches will also be explored.
Prerequisites: None.
Credits: 2 semester hours.

EDAD 578 Leader as Ethnographer: Exploring and Engaging the School Community

Content: Ethnographers gather and record information to find patterns, better understand issues faced by communities, and improve quality of life. Veteran school leaders explore the knowledge, skills, and applicable concepts necessary to explore and engage the school community. Class begins with an examination of the individual leaders' personal worldview, critical to how the leader understands and interacts with others. Then attention turns to the broader community, studying local values and customs, assets and challenges, sources of information and communication, and special interest groups. Finally, course participants craft a plan for meaningfully energizing, engaging, and empowering the school community.
Prerequisites: None.
Credits: 2 semester hours.

EDAD 550 Superintendent Bridge Professional Mentorship

Content: This one-year supervised mentor seminar at the school district level provides the culminating experience in the Superintendent Bridge Program, which allows candidates with a Standard Administrator license to earn an Oregon Continuing Administrator License as designated by the Oregon Teacher Standards and Practices Commission (TSPC). This course is designed to establish a formal mentor relationship within a school district or other educational system. The mentorship will encourage collaboration and joint problem-solving on issues faced by current practicing administrators. The requirements and objectives created by TSPC and implemented by Lewis & Clark are intended to give candidates practical, useful, and timely experiences in school and district leadership.
Prerequisites: None.
Restrictions: Students must hold a Standard Administrator License and have a minimum of 3 years as a practicing administrator to enroll in the class.
Credits: 1 semester hour.

EDAD 546 Negotiation, Collective Bargaining, and Contract Management

Content: The superintendent, central office personnel and school building administrators must be familiar with the labor agreement governing employment practices within each school. There are clear responsibilities for maintaining agreements reached through the collective bargaining process. When the provisions of the collective bargaining agreement (also known as the employment contract) are violated or are alleged to have been violated, a grievance procedure is initiated. Administrators must be familiar with the grievance procedure for resolving the dispute, including binding arbitration as a final step.
Prerequisites: None.
Credits: 2 semester hours.

EDAD 556 School Finance and District Budgeting

Content: Advanced budgeting concepts for district-level administrators with emphasis on how long-range planning, facilities management, and special programs designed to eliminate achievement disparities affect the annual budget-making process.
Prerequisites: None.
Credits: 1-2 semester hours.

ED 500 Educational Research

Content: How professional educators can gather and interpret the information they need for effective decision making. Topics include the major uses and components of classroom or school-based research processes, quantitative and qualitative methods, the scholarly critique of research studies, and what it means to be a reflective teacher-researcher.
Prerequisites: None.
Credits: 2 semester hours.

ED 509 Master's Project Seminar

Content: Culmination of the master's inservice program. Students have the opportunity to integrate what they have learned. In consultation with the instructor, students design a project that defines and answers a question about creating engaging, responsive, democratic learning communities for diverse learners related to their teaching or intellectual and professional development. Class time is reduced to accommodate individual conferences with the instructor and students' research time. The class meets as a group to support students' synthesis of each other's work and for problem-solving as research and writing proceed.
Prerequisites: None.
Restrictions: To be taken at end of master's program.
Credits: 2 semester hours.

EDAD 533 Professional Development for Instructional Leaders

Content: Application of research on professional development, teaching, and learning for instructional leaders. Participants examine approaches to teacher learning that cultivate long-term sustained support between colleagues, including mentoring, peer coaching, professional portfolios, collaborative teaching and research, and reflective practices. Topics include research on adult development, learning theory, instructional theory, and comprehensive programs for at-risk students. This research provides a basis for developing systematic professional development programs that are sensitive to changing school cultures and that cultivate staff and student diversity and continuous learning. Appropriate for students considering careers in educational administration.
Prerequisites: None.
Credits: 2 semester hours.

EDAD 576 Integrated Administrative Seminar

Content: In a capstone/culminating project of the Ed.S. in Administration program, students will synthesize and integrate their learning over time into a written report and public demonstration. For this project, students will: assess leadership growth across the Initial and Continuing Administrative licensure programs; demonstrate knowledge of the seven standards for Oregon School Administrators; tie their growth to the professional literature, coursework, and their experiences; report their findings, including recognized areas of strength and challenge; and craft a long-range practitioner plan for continued improvement. Students will present their work to a faculty panel in written and oral formats.
Prerequisites: None.
Restrictions: Admission to Ed.S. program and completion of all Initial Administrator License courses and 15 semester hours of Continuing Administrator License courses.
Credits: 1-4 semester hours.