Courses | Online MS Educational Leadership

Curriculum Details

8 courses
40 credits
300 practicum hours
12-week course duration

Accelerate your path to principal licensure with twelve-week courses that empower you to graduate in as few as 12 months. This TSPC-accredited program is delivered through our AAQEP-accredited College of Education. Through online courses and hands-on clinical practice, you will explore systems improvement, student success, instructional leadership and more, while building expertise in reflective practice, equity-centered leadership and data-informed decision-making.

Core Courses

Credits

EDLD 520 Foundations & Values: Equity, Ethics, & Mission Credit Hours: 5

Foundations and Values: Equity, Ethics, & Mission includes an orientation to the principal administrator licensure program. The purpose and positionality of principals within school communities, with an emphasis on the rural experience, will be explored. A foundational course for the program, candidates will learn an introduction to values and vision, equity, ethics and morality, school mission and culture, and community engagement and volunteers. Concepts explored in this course will be further developed throughout the program.

EDLD 521 Structures and Systems: School Improvement Credit Hours: 5

Structures and systems: school improvement is the second foundational course in the principal administrator licensure program. The focus of the course includes understanding the classroom, school, and community systemically with a consideration for curriculum, instruction, assessment, equitable outcomes, institutional bias, and allocation of resources. Concepts explored in this course will be further developed throughout the program.

EDLD 522 Budget and Finance Credit Hours: 5

Budget and finance will explore how to make budgetary decisions in order to enact mission, vision, and values in an ethical manner. The course will entail considering access to educational opportunities and strategies for addressing disparities.

EDLD 523 Student Success and Well-Being Credit Hours: 5

Student success and well-being will explore how to utilize systems informed by data to provide child-centered responsive practices in order to cultivate student well-being in order to live out mission, vision, and values in an ethical manner.

EDLD 524 Principal as an Instructional Leader Credit Hours: 5

Principal as an instructional leader will explore systems to support adult personnel in order to develop their capacity to support student success and well-being. Principal candidates will develop skills related to providing professional development, mentoring and coaching, and to facilitate data teams.

EDLD 525 Supervision, Evaluation, and Development Credit Hours: 5

Supervision, evaluation, and development will consider the principal’s role in fostering well-being and growth of adult professionals within school buildings. The course will include leadership related to effectiveness, teacher evaluation, and learning supports.

EDLD 526 Management and Operations Credit Hours: 5

Management and operations will explore human resources, conduct and discipline for adults and students, and policy relevant to the roles of PK-12 principals.

EDLD 527 Clinical Practices and Portfolio Credit Hours: 5

A culminating course in the principal administrator licensure program, in the clinical practices and portfolio course principal candidates will demonstrate proficiency aligned to each of the standards for obtaining an Oregon license to become a principal. With support, candidates will compile evidence from throughout the program into a portfolio.

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