| EDL-Educational Leadership |
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| EDL501 |
Educational Finance |
| The educational finance course is a practice oriented experience which informs the student about the historical perspective of funding schools and the significant role which the local property tax has played in school funding. The role of state and federal funding along with increasing state and federal control is reviewed. The purposes of general and categorical aid are discussed along with a review of the various categorical aid programs available through the state and federal governments. Issues of equity, adequacy and appropriateness in relation to the roles of local property taxes, as well as federal and state funding are identified. The ability and willingness to pay are reviewed. Students are required to review local and state budget documents, understand current technologies and formulate a school district budget as part of the course requirements. Each student is to complete at least 15 hours of clinical internship work outside of class and attend one additional class session to meet clinical expectations. 2-3 semester hours |
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| EDL502 |
Educational Law and Governance |
| The law and governance course presents the legal and legislative bases of public education. The school code, federal and state court decisions, and federal and state legislation are studied and analyzed in this course. Along with general educational legislative issues, specific items such as substance abuse, employee discipline and dismissal procedures, and faculty and students rights are addressed. Each student is to complete at least 15 hours of clinical internship work outside of class and attend one additional class session to meet clinical expectations. 2-3 semester hours |
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| EDL504 |
School and Community Relations |
| This course provides students with the knowledge and skills necessary for understanding the interaction between schools and their communities; initiating and maintaining effective communications among school personnel, families, students, and other community members; and developing educational policies and programs which best reflect the community's needs and desires. Interactive, participatory communications are emphasized to reduce isolation and increase responsiveness between constituency groups and the schools. Each student is to complete at least 15 hours of clinical internship work outside of class and attend one additional class session to meet clinical expectations. 2-3 semester hours |
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| EDL506 |
Collective Negotiations and Personnel Administration |
| This course prepares the student to manage differences among individuals and groups in educational settings and to promote and maintain collaborative employer-employee relationships. Particular emphasis is given to the knowledge, strategies and skills needed for interest-based and strategic collective negotiation processes and outcomes, effective contract analysis and administration, and the appropriate involvement of employee organizations and leadership in educational renewal and decision making. Each student is to complete at least 15 hours of clinical internship work outside of class and attend one additional class session to meet clinical expectations. 2-3 semester hours |
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| EDL510 |
Leadership and Organizational Development of Schools |
| This course acquaints each student with theories and strategies of leadership affecting administration and organizational development of schools. Specific attention is given to change theory, long range planning, decision-making process, motivational and social systems theories. This course provides students with a solid foundation in the research and practice of effective leadership in schooling. Each student is to complete at least 15 hours of clinical internship work outside of class and attend one additional class session to meet clinical expectations. 2-3 semester hours |
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| EDL512 |
Communication and Technological Skills for School Leaders |
| Communication skills play an essential role in leading a school system. Listening, diagnosing, analyzing and responding skills are critical elements of quality leadership behavior. Specific communication strategies are suggested to enhance the effectiveness of the school leader at the organizational and individual levels. Each student is to complete at least 15 hours of clinical internship work outside of class and attend one additional class session to meet clinical expectations. 2-3 semester hours |
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| EDL546 |
Perspectives on and Administration of Educational Policies |
| This course focuses on the conceptualization, adoption, implementation, and assessment of educational policies. It involves the analysis of policies in relationship to their suitability for achieving preferred aims of education, particularly through the use of a case study approach. It is attentive to the ways historical, political, legal, social, and institutional contexts shape administrators' and other policy makers' ability to initiate, implement, modify, or resist given policies. Special attention is devoted to policy making at the local level. Toward this end, authority relations within school systems are examined, and relationships between the formal mechanisms of school governance and various stakeholders are explored. 3 semester hours |
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| EDL551 |
System and Staff Development |
| This course focuses on the leadership roles and responsibilities related to personal and professional development of staff within the school organization. The process of change for individuals and organizations is examined. Program planning models are reviewed and evaluated. Each student will apply skills in conducting needs assessments and developing planned change strategies for individuals and organizations. Each student is to complete at least 15 hours of clinical internship work outside of class and attend one additional class session to meet clinical expectations. 2-3 semester hours |
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| EDL552 |
Administration of Curriculum |
| This course focuses on the roles and responsibilities of the administrator as an instructional leader and facilitator of the curriculum development process. Curriculum development theory is explored and existing models of curriculum planning are examined. Systemic change is addressed as a need for curriculum revisions or additions to meet the aspirations of an increasingly diverse and global society. Students will be exposed to a large body of knowledge focused on cognitive development, leadership styles, assessment processes, research data collection and analysis, resource allocation and collaborative decision-making focused on the task of instructional leadership and facilitation. Each student is to complete at least 15 hours of clinical internship work outside of class and attend one additional class session to meet clinical expectations. 2-3 semester hours |
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| EDL553 |
Supervising Instruction |
| In this course the student operationalizes the assumptions of nondirective and collaborative evaluation processes. The skills needed for effective supervision that result in professional development are developed and intensively practiced, including joint planning, observation and data collection, analysis of teaching and learning, and feedback. Each student is to complete at least 15 hours of clinical internship work outside of class and attend one additional session to meet clinical expectations. 2-3 semester hours |
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| EDL554 |
System and Staff Evaluation |
| Summative evaluation of and within any system is critical to demonstrate continuous improvement of the system. Various skills and tools are needed to determine growth and informed decision making to improve the quality of evaluation. Understanding systems, educational and instructional, and how to improve them using quality process strategies are demonstrated within this course. Each student is to complete at least 15 hours of clinical internship work outside of class and attend one additional class session to meet clinical expectations. 2-3 semester hours |
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| EDL581 |
Workshop/Educational Leadership/Leadership Strategies |
| 1-4 semester hours |
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| EDL582 |
Workshop/Educational Leadership/Supervision and Evaluation |
| 1-4 semester hours |
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| EDL587 |
Workshop/Educational Leadership/Policy Implementation |
| 1-4 semester hours |
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| EDL588 |
Workshop/Educational Leadership/Organizational Development |
| 1-4 semester hours |
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| EDL589 |
Workshop/Educational Leadership/Politics and Law |
| 1-4 semester hours |
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| EDL590A |
Clinical Internship/Educational Leadership/Early Childhood |
| EDL590B |
Clinical Internship/Educational Leadership/Middle School |
| EDL590C |
Clinical Internship/Educational Leadership/Secondary |
| EDL590D |
Clinical Internship/Educational Leadership/Exceptional Children |
| The Educational Leadership Clinical Internship is designed to meet the Florida program requirement for individuals whose training and experience allows them to develop professionally through the application of theory and research to administrative practice. Each student will take a total of six hours focused on either Early Childhood, Middle School, Secondary Education or Exceptional Children in conjunction with EDL501; EDL504; EDL510; EDL512; EDL552 and EDL553. Students will work in cooperating public school systems to test and refine the wide range of personal and professional competencies associated with effective leadership in district level administrative positions. Prerequisite: Admission to Educational Leadership Program. 1-4 semester hours |
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| EDL591 |
Field Study/Educational Leadership |
| 1-4 semester hours |
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| EDL593 |
Seminar in Educational Leadership |
| An advanced seminar dealing with current issues in administrating and supervising schools K-12. 2 semester hours |
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| EDL594 |
Independent Study/Educational Supervision/Professional Development |
| The purpose of this independent study is to provide participants with the opportunity to explore a topic of their own choice related to professional development and growth, educational supervision, and/or educational leadership. Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Interdisciplinary Studies Program in Curriculum and Instruction and completion of Terms I and II. 1-3 semester hours |
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| EDL594A |
Independent Study/Educational Leadership |
| 1-3 semester hours |
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| EDL601 |
School Financial Management |
| This course acquaints the student with the operational procedures and structures of public school finance in Illinois. It reviews the social, economic, and political consideration in financing education. The roles of federal, state, and local governmental financial support are also examined. 3 semester hours |
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| EDL602 |
Leadership and Management Strategies |
| This course is designed to assist leaders in the management of change and deals with the developing strategies of implementing change. The theories and strategies discussed center on the individual, group, and organization. Each student is made aware that successful organizational change depends on effective diagnosis of subsystems within the organization, the organization's culture, and environmental forces. Strategies for team building, improving decision making in the system, and changing the culture of the organization are examined as a result of the diagnosis. 3 semester hours |
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| EDL603 |
Educational Planning and Decision-Making |
| This course examines planning and decision making at both the policy and operational levels. It emphasizes individual, group, and organizational decision making. This course reviews decision-making theory, social, political and economic influences on planning and decision making, and the P.I.E. (planning, implementing, and evaluating) cycle of decision making. 3 semester hours |
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| EDL604 |
Administrative Issues for Pluralistic Schools |
| This course is designed to develop in students an awareness of the pluralistic society in which we live and the impact of pluralism on schools. Students are expected to analyze and/or develop district policies relative to cultural pluralism in the schools. A field experience requires the student to make administrative recommendations to a school district regarding appropriate policies and procedures in a pluralistic setting. 3 semester hours |
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| EDL610 |
Entry Portfolio Development for Superintendent Endorsement |
| This course is designed for applicants of the Educational Leadership Doctoral program who hold an Educational Specialist degree from another university or who have completed considerable coursework in a degree program alligned to Illinois Content Standards and the national standards of the Educational Leadership Constituent Consortium. Under direction of a faculty member, a portfolio documenting knowledge, skills and dispositions embedded in the state and national standards will be created. Prerequisite(s): Candidate must hold Type 75 endorsement in Illinois or the Type 51 License in Wisconsin. Candidate must submit an application for admission to the EDS or EDD program in Educational Leadership. 3 semester hours |
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| EDL620 |
School Policy and Politics |
| This course focuses on understanding political dimensions involved in building local, state, and national support for education. Policy, process, and political actions at the district level are to be analyzed and assessed. A field application analyzing policy and political systems at the school level is required in the course. 3 semester hours |
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| EDL622 |
Curriculum Planning, Organization and Evaluation |
| The purpose of this course is to identify and explore ways of thinking about curriculum planning, organization and evaluation. Those areas will be considered through examination of contemporary curriculum proposals and ideas drawn from those prominent during any cycle of the course. The course will involve a field research project as well as group deliberation regarding whether and how various proposals and ideas might be included in ongoing curriculum plans in a school or district. 3 semester hours |
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| EDL624 |
Professional Development and School Change |
| This course focuses on the nature, dimensions, and contexts of professional development in the field of education. Such professional development is examined within a framework of school change and recent history of school reform efforts. The course explores the instructional implications of professional development within this context. 3 semester hours |
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| EDL690 |
Educational Leadership Internship |
| The Educational Leadership Doctoral Specialist Internship is designed for selected individuals whose training and experience allows them to develop professionally through the application of theory and research to administrative practice. Interns will be placed in cooperating public school systems to test and refine the wide range of personal and professional competencies associated with effective leadership in district level administrative positions. The intern will engage in administrative activities directly related to district level functions such as finance, operations, personnel, and curriculum and instruction. Each student in the Educational Leadership Program is required to register for a total of 6 semester hours. 1-4 semester hours, variable credit per quarter. |
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| EDL693 |
Educational Leadership Seminar |
| The Educational Leadership Doctoral Specialist intern seminar provides an opportunity for administrative interns to integrate practical experience with theoretical models addressed in the program course work. Students meet with the seminar professor to review the activities in which the interns are involved, share experiences, and products, discuss the degree of success achieved, analyze administrative styles of cooperating administrators, analyze interpersonal relationships and integrate these with the theoretical modes, processes and skills. Each student in the Educational Leadership Program is required to register for a total of 3 semester hours. 1-3 semester hours, variable credit per quarter. |
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