EDLD 9331 - Building Leadership Capacity (3 Credit Hours)

Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0
This course focuses on building individual and district leadership for effective schools. Candidates will examine leadership behaviors and dispositions from theoretical perspectives to identify ways individual leadership contributes to the development of vision and accomplishment of mission in a school/district setting. Given that leadership is a values-laden profession, dispositions of leadership candidates will be assessed and examined. Effective leadership behaviors in promoting learning and high performance schools will be considered in light of leadership selection, development, and succession planning. A major component of the course will require development of a personal action plan to guide candidates to implement distributed leadership model within a school/district.

Prerequisite(s): Admission to Tier II Ed.D. cohort in Educational Leadership (P-12 Education).
Restriction(s): NO Undergraduate Level Students