School Leadership PD Series

1st Eight Week Session 9/9/20 - 10/23/2020

• EDPD 5015-491 Leadership & Organizational Communication (Fall) - 
  

• • • Presentation communication
    • Communicating with the community
    • Internet communication
    • Interview communication
    • Evaluation communication
    • Conflict communication
    • Grant writing and technical writing
    • Business & organizational written communication
    • APA style writing
      

• EDPD 5xxx Leading Organizational Change (Fall) - Todd

• • Leading Change (book)
  • Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change (book)
    

2nd Eight Week Session 10/26/20 - 12/17/2020

• EDPD 5xxx Leadership in Educational Technology and Instructional Design (Fall) - Joe B.
  
  • Learning and Leading in a Digital Age (book)
  • The Future Ready Framework
  • Technology Integration
    
  • Professional Development Models

• EDPD 5xxx Strategic Budget & Financial Leadership (Fall) - Todd Move to 2nd

• Managing School Finance and Operation

Spring 2021

1st Eight Week Session 1/7/21 - 2/23/21

• EDPD 5xxx Leading Effective Teams: Leadership, Coaching, & Mentoring (Spring) - 

• • 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (book)
  • Principle-Centered Leadership (book)
  • 4 Disciplines of Execution (book)
  • Coaching for Improved Instruction
  • Coaching for School Change

• EDPD 5xxx Strategic HR Leadership (Spring) - Todd

• • Managing human resources and teacher talent 

2nd Eight Week Session 2/24/21 - 4/22/21

• • EDPD 5xxx Conflict Management & Decision-Making (Spring) - Joe B.
    • Crucial Conversations (book)
    • Crucial Confrontations (book)
    • Negotiations Strategies

• EDPD 5xxx Organizational Politics, Policies, & Procedures (Spring) Todd

• Stakeholder theory

Summer 2021

1st Eight Week Session - 5/10/21 - 6/22/21

• • EDPD 5xxx Project Leadership & Management for Educational Leaders (Summer) - Todd
    
    • Improving school climate
    • Planning for school improvement
    • Initiating the project
    • Planning the project 
    • Executing the project
    • Monitoring and controlling the project
    • Closing the project
      

• EDPD 5xxx Organizational Risk Leadership & Management (Summer) - 
  

• • People, Risk & Security  (book)
  • Risk Management in Organizations (book)
  • COSO Enterprise Risk Management Model
  • Safe Schools

• EDPD 5xxx Leading Organizational Change (Summer) - Todd

• • Leading Change (book)
    
  • Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change (book)
  • Organizational Risk Mitigation Strategies

• EDPD 5xxx Organizational Politics, Policies, & Procedures (Summer) Todd

• Stakeholder theory

2nd Eight Week Session 6/23/21 - 8/6/21

• EDPD 5xxx Instructional Leadership & Supervision Principles (Summer) - Joe B.

• • • Inquiry Cycle
    • Leading Instruction

• EDPD 5xxx School Improvement Planning (Summer) - 

• • Comprehensive Needs Assessment, 
  • Data Analysis, 
  • Planning, 
  • Implementation, and
  • Monitoring

• EDPD 5xxx Strategic HR Leadership (Spring) - Todd

• • • Managing human resources and teacher talent 
      

• EDPD 5xxx Strategic Budget & Financial Leadership (Sumer) - Todd

• Managing School Finance and Operation

• EDPD 5xxx Writing Smart Goals

• EDPD 5xxx Creating Communities of Practice

• EDPD 5xxx Expanding your Digital Footprint 

• EDPD 5xxx Cognitive Coaching

• use of multimedia, and social media platforms to share your visions/mission

• EDPD 5xxx Principal Supervisors: Coaching Principals

• Coursework aligned with CCSSO Model Supervisor Principal Professional Standards

Course Learning Framework May include, but not be limited to….

• Weekly Recorded Lectures: The instructor will provide a short 20-minute review of key concepts for the week’s readings.
• Weekly Text Readings: Texts associated with executive leadership practices
• Weekly Online Assessments: A short multiple-choice online assessment and review of the week’s readings and key concepts. The purpose of the assessments is to reinforce learning and prepare students for application of concepts to scenarios, activities, and projects.
• Discussion Board Prompts & Peer Replies: Application of the week’s readings applied to specific common leadership scenarios in the public education setting. Original posts will be no more than 400 words with 2 or more supporting references. Students will reply to at least 2 original posts with a maximum 200 word reply with 2 or more supporting references.
• Skills-Based Activities: Students will complete skills-based activities that apply concepts and principles in real-world education leadership settings. These activities should take no longer than 3 hours each.
• Leadership Project Through Instructor Mentoring/Coaching: The student will select a real-world problem or goal and develop a project that applies key course concepts to the problem or goal. The instructor will function as a 1:1 mentor/coach through the course to help each student develop and complete their project. The project should be custom-fit to the student’s interests, needs, and goals. The project can take many forms in outcomes--paper, portfolio, slides presentation, etc.
• Case Study Method, Action Research Approach, Problem-based Learning Activities, Journal Writing, Annotated Bibliographies (Synthesis Matrices)

Estimated Total Coursework Time = 40 - 45 Hours

What will learners know, value, and be able to do by the end of the course?

By the end of the course, successful learners will be able to:

• Describe the nature and use of the steps in the school strategy formulation process.

• Analyze the strategic position of your school relative to both the overall world environment and its own specific external competitive environment.

• Assess your school's internal capabilities.

• Describe the skills needed to be a member and leader of the strategy creation and leadership team.

• Describe and explain the ethical issues involved in strategy formation and integrate these into the development of your school’s strategic plan.

• Create the outline of a strategy plan highlighting the elements that are necessary for presentation to your school’s senior leadership

Assessment Methods

What assessment methods will provide evidence that learners have achieved the CO? How will feedback be given to learners regarding their achievement of the CO? What assessment methods will help to improve student progress towards this CO?

• Weekly Check for Understanding Online Assessments: A short multiple-choice online assessment and review of the week’s readings and key concepts. The purpose of the assessments is to reinforce learning and prepare students for application of concepts to scenarios, activities, and projects. This may be used by your Mentor for Weekly synchronous coaching.

• Weekly Recorded Lectures: The instructor will provide a short 20-minute review of key concepts for the week’s readings.

• Weekly Text Readings: Texts associated with executive leadership practices

• Bi-Weekly Scenario Prompts and Peer Replies/Prompts: Application of the week’s readings applied to specific common leadership scenarios in the public education setting. Original posts will be no more than 400 words with 2 or more supporting references. Students will reply to at least 2 original posts with a maximum 200 word reply with 2 or more supporting references.

• Skills-Based Activities: Students will complete skills-based activities that apply concepts and principles in real-world education leadership settings. These activities should take no longer than 3 hours each.

• Executive Leadership Project Through Instructor Mentoring/Coaching: The student will select a real-world problem or goal and develop a project that applies key course concepts to the problem or goal. The instructor will function as a 1:1 mentor/coach through the course to help each student develop and complete their project. The project should be custom-fit to the student’s interests, needs, and goals. The project can take many forms in outcomes--paper, portfolio, slides presentation, etc.

With which program-level learning outcomes do these course-level learning outcomes align?

Standard 2: Teaching and Learning

Effective educational leaders support teaching and learning by facilitating coherent systems of curriculum, instruction, and assessment to promote each student's academic success and well-being.

Standard 2.2: Build a professional culture of trust and collaboration, engaging teachers in sharing information, analyzing outcomes, and planning improvement.

Standard 4: Community Engagement

Effective educational leaders engage families and the community in order to create an inclusive, caring, safe, and supportive school environment to promote each student's academic success and well-being. 

Standard 4.2: Create and sustain positive, collaborative, and productive relationships with families and the community. 

Standard 5: Ethical Leadership

Effective educational leaders act ethically and professionally to promote each student's academic success and well-being.

Standard 5.2: Model and promote professional attributes of integrity, fairness, transparency, and trust.

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