Course Descriptions
Core Content Courses
EPL 6340 - Legal and Ethical Aspects of Leadership
Focuses on the legal and policy issues critical to effective school leadership. Students explore the constitutional and statutory rights of key stakeholders and develop strategies to make legally and ethically defensible decisions. Topics include equity and access; compliance; ethics; and the development, communication, and implementation of effective policy.
EPL 6350 - Developing Human Capital
Focuses on the recruitment, selection, coaching, development, supervision, and retention of effective teachers and other employees. Topics include recruitment strategies, hiring and induction practices, professional development models, building personal and employee capacity through coaching, and the effective and ethical management of personnel.
EPL 6354 - Leading Organizational Change
Focuses on practical frameworks and strategies for change that leaders use to enhance the effectiveness of their organizations. Topics include effective approaches and potential barriers to change.
EPL 6355 - School Culture and Student Support
Assists students in understanding and applying proactive strategies that build an inclusive, equitable campus culture to promote students’ wellbeing and student learning. Discusses the relationship between a strong, positive culture and highly effective classroom instruction that fosters student social-emotional growth and academic learning.
EPL 6367 - Instructional Leadership: Literacy
Upon completion of a year-long campus improvement initiative, students compose a final capstone paper in which they synthesize the project portfolio components, analyze final data, and make recommendations for future consideration. Although this class occurs during the summer term of the second year, the capstone paper is the culmination of a school improvement project completed throughout the year.
Field Courses
EPL 6348 - Field Studies
Internship activities directly aligned to the coursework in each module of the program. Field studies projects are part of a summative portfolio assessment.