Educational Leadership Department

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,a nd 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.