Curriculum and Learning Outcomes
Curriculum
Completion of the Ed.D. degree requires 60 semester units. The program is designed to enable you to complete your doctorate in three years. Courses will be scheduled for your convenience during alternating Saturdays. Schedules are developed for the entire year to allow for your planning.
PreK-12 Option
Summer Semester
EDD 7000 - Leadership for Learning
EDD 7010 - Research Learning Community Seminar (RLCS): Introduction to Doctoral Studies and Dissertation Research
Fall Semester
EDD 7030 - Quantitative Research Methods for School Improvement
EDD 7140 - Leadership for Equity and Advocacy
Spring Semester
EDD 7060 - Qualitative Research Methods for School Improvement
EDD 7070 - Education Policy, Systemic Reform, and Social Justice
Summer Semester
EDD 7080 - Building School/Community Partnerships for Student Success
EDD 7120 - Creating the Conditions for Student Success
Fall Semester
EDD 7110 - Advanced Quantitative Research OR EDD 7111 - Advanced Qualitative Research
EDD 7020/7020L - Leading and Learning with Technology
EDD 7100 - Research Learning Community Seminar: Literature Review
Spring Semester
EDD 7040 - Organizational Culture and Institutional Change
EDD 7150 - RLCS - Developing a Dissertation Proposal
Summer Semester
EDD 7090 - Maximizing Fiscal and Human Resources for Student Success
EDD 7170 - Global Perspectives on Educational Leadership, Achievement, and Equity
Fall Semester
EDD 7180 - Research Seminar: Dissertation
EDD 7160 - Synthesizing Key Concepts of Ethics, Equity and Social Justice for Transformative Leadership
EDD 8000 - Dissertation
Spring Semester
EDD 7190 - RLCS - Dissertation Completion
EDD 8000 - Dissertation
Community College and Postsecondary Option
Program Objectives and Student Learning Outcomes
Graduates of the Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership will be able to champion equity, quality, and justice in promoting learning for all and continuous organizational improvement and systemic change
Graduates will be able to:
SLO 1. Demonstrate knowledge of ways to shape, improve, and sustain educational organizations that advance equity, quality, justice, and learning for all.
Graduates of the Doctoral program in Educational Leadership will be able to address issues of equity, diversity, and justice in education to improve the quality of learning for all.
Graduates will be able to:
SLO 2. Demonstrate the ability to advocate for equitable, culturally responsive, and asset-based approaches for serving students, especially historically and persistently minoritized populations.
Graduates of the Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership will be able to demonstrate effective processes for curriculum, instruction, learning, and assessment for equity, quality, and justice.
Graduates will be able to:
SLO 3. Demonstrate knowledge of ways to promote high quality, culturally responsive curriculum and instruction, including knowledge of theories of cognition and learning relevant policies and assessment practices.
Graduates of the Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership will be able to develop and implement policies to advocate and provide effective programs, practices, and resources to meet the needs of diverse learners.
Graduates will be able to:
SLO 4. Demonstrate the ability to advocate for policy decisions that advance quality, equity, and justice, drawing on knowledge of local, state, and federal policy contexts as well as theories of the policy process.
Graduates of the Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership will be able to design, conduct, and apply robust research to critical problems of practice.
Graduates will be able to:
SLO 5a: Synthesize existing research regarding critical problems in education, in order to inform scholarship and practice.
SLO 5b: Design and conduct rigorous theoretically grounded research studies on critical problems of practice in education, yielding implications for scholar-practitioner leaders.
Graduates of the Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership will be able to model ethical decision-making in collaborative processes for organizational improvement and community engagement.
Graduates will be able to:
SLO 6. Describe how ethical principles and community engagement inform their leadership practice, with particular attention to collaboration with historically minoritized students, families, and communities.