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This is a master's level course required in the NCSU Educational Leadership Program. The course is designed to build basic competencies related to the use of data in meaningful ways by school level leaders. Students learn to construct a longitudinal analysis of student achievement that includes a report of subgroup performance over time, as relative to the simultaneous performance of various segments of the tested population. Students learn to target areas for improvement based on data and to develop strategies to bring about the cultural change needed in their school to produce the gains. They also learn to conduct an analysis of program effectiveness based on both process and outcome data. Students learn these things through completion of 3 collaborative projects. The projects also develop communication skills essential to school leaders, because students generate presentations for different audiences including parents, teachers and district level supervisors.
Like (1)This course is a doctoral level course for students interested in leading district and state level school systems. The course is built upon a systems thinking perspective of schools as complex organizations It draws heavily from international literature in school effectiveness and school improvement. Students examine the multiple organizational components necessary to produce cultural change in school districts to yield meaningful and sustainable improvements in student learning.
This course is a foundational master's level course in the NCSU Educational Leadership Program. The course covers the history of school administrative orientations toward personnel from early 20th century America through the present. Topics covered include History of the Human Relations Approach, Diversity, Recruitment & Retention of Professional Staff and other employees, Evaluation of School Personnel, Professional Development, Development of Personnel Policies, Compensation, Collective Bargaining and Legal Aspects of Human Relations Administration. Students master key concepts and develop an individualized project that applies key concepts from the course to the context of the schools or districts where they are or have been employed.
This is a doctoral level course that Dr. Schoen teaches occasionally. It covers understanding how educational policy in the US is developed, implemented and evaluated. NCSU has a diverse faculty who teach this course, each with their own emphasis based on their individual areas of expertise. Those taking it with Dr. Schoen can expect it to be a synchronous & asynchronous online course which emphasizes the policy implementation aspect, exploring variables that impact policy implementation at state, district and local school levels. A key concept explored in this course is the centralization vs. decentralization of decision making.
This is a required course in the doctoral program in Educational Leadership at North Carolina State University. The course is designed to help students think critically and analytically about the effects of leadership approaches and actions on students. Students learn about issues of social minorities through ethnographic inquiry and consider various ways to address these issues so that diversity and uniqueness are honored and academic success is within reach for all students regardless of background or personal attributes.This course is taught exclusively online blending both synchronous and asynchronous learning opportunities.
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