EDAD 501 Educational Leadership for Equity and Social Justice

Content: This foundational course is designed to introduce the theories, practices, core responsibilities, and issues associated with leadership and social justice in educational organizations. Aspiring principals and other educational practitioners move toward acquiring and affirming requisites and capacities to engage in social justice praxis (critical reflection and action) towards improving conditions and culture in schools in authentic and collaborative ways. Candidates learn about instructional, organizational, community, ethical, and sociopolitical functions of leadership. Using research and reflection, candidates analyze and clarify internal and external conceptions of and attitudes toward leadership at the intersection of social injustice including but not limited to: systemic racism, whiteness as privilege and power, gender and class biases, ableism, and deficit minded decision-making to guide them in leadership work.
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: 1-3 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 Budgeting and Operations for Equity

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 Pre-Practicum for School Administrators

Content: Preparation for 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-level/high school settings under the direction of experienced site and campus supervisors.
Prerequisites: None.
Restrictions: Enrollment in another course in the Principal Administrator Licensure program.
Credits: 1 semester hour.

EDAD 519 Practicum for School Administrators

Content: 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-level/high school under the supervision of experienced site and campus supervisors.
Prerequisites: EDAD 518
Restrictions: Admission to the Principal Administrator License program and enrollment in another Principal Administrator License program course.
Credits: 1-2 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 Professional Administrator License program completion.
Prerequisites: None.
Restrictions: Principal Administrator License; minimum of three years as a practicing administrator. Course to be taken at the end of the Professional Administrator License.
Credits: 1-2 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 541 Courage to Lead--Sustaining a Vision

Content: This hybrid course includes two seminars and online discussions with an opportunity for participants to explore and develop a personal leadership vision, a basis for exploring the difficult dilemmas experienced in their work. Each student is responsible for developing a personal platform based on their reflection on seminar readings and the investigation of a particular issue or dilemma in their administrative work life. The participant prepares a 3-5 page paper illustrating a work dilemma and shares it during the second seminar. The two seminars and online reflections focus on practicing the generation of open and honest questions.
Prerequisites: None.
Restrictions: In administrative position.
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.
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 Leadership for Learning

Content: What is professional learning? Given the complex array of expectations for schools to improve and for teachers and principals to learn to do new work, a necessary skill is continuous inquiry with school leaders in the role of "lead learner," figuring out new and often unknown practices. This course cultivates learning-focused leadership by examining multiple forms of inquiry for leadership, school reform, instructional practice, and evaluation. Students will understand research on professional learning and evaluate the efficacy of the current models for professional development for accomplishing a variety of professional learning needs. 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.
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 543 Evaluating Teaching and Leading

Content: Re-culturing the evaluation process for teachers and administrators is long overdue and well worth the benefits. Shifting away from old models of retrospective, impressionistic clinical supervision will require teachers and administrators to learn new evidence-based practices and to become familiar with new data analysis tools for both formative feedback and summative assessment. This course focuses on learning to collaboratively analyze classroom observation data to produce clear, specific, accurate, timely, and meaningful evidence of learning. In addition to developing new technical skills for collecting and analyzing classroom observation data and enhancing feedback practices, students will also develop implementation plans that address socio-cultural aspects of shifting away from old models of evaluation including attending to relational trust, restructuring time for formative learning cycles, and facilitating collaborative analysis of classroom observation data. Students will develop a new appreciation for the richness of classroom interactions for explaining and describing 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 Equitable Management of Resources

Content: School and district leaders are charged with doing more than simply managing students and learning. The management of school boards, personnel, the school environment, physical plant, and ancillary services play a critical role in student learning and staff effectiveness. The distribution of limited resources requires leaders to wear a lens of equity. This course focuses on the management and oversight of the critical resources that contribute to the success of schools. Areas of focus for the course include the equitable decisions required for management and operations of: school boards, personnel, offices, auxiliary services, special services, finances, student behavior, time and other resources. 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 Climate - Policy and Practice

Content: In the past, school-wide zero-tolerance policies have 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, and the critical role that school leaders have in building positive learning environments for each student.
Prerequisites: None.
Restrictions: Principal 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.
Credits: 1-2 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.
Credits: 2 semester hours.

EDAD 542 Courage to Lead for Democracy

Content: This hybrid course meets in two seminars with online discussions to explore the powerful practice of self-reflection and personal change related to supporting democracy in schools. It offers a context for participants to explore the difficult dilemmas related to working with diverse students and adults. Each member of the seminar group is responsible for the investigation of a particular issue or dilemma in that person's administrative work life. The participant prepares a case study and an overview document for the seminar group. Participants learn how to ask honest, open questions to assist in understanding and resolving the dilemma.
Prerequisites: None.
Restrictions: In administrative 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 567 Leading Intelligently in Schools and Community

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 explore authentic school, district, and community real-world dilemmas and apply personal leadership skills to resolve them.
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 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: This course examines 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: 2-3 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 Leadership for Learning

Content: What is professional learning? Given the complex array of expectations for schools to improve and for teachers and principals to learn to do new work, a necessary skill is continuous inquiry with school leaders in the role of "lead learner," figuring out new and often unknown practices. This course cultivates learning-focused leadership by examining multiple forms of inquiry for leadership, school reform, instructional practice, and evaluation. Students will understand research on professional learning and evaluate the efficacy of the current models for professional development for accomplishing a variety of professional learning needs. 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.
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.