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The six-month long internship involves supervised transformational learning practices supervised by a sitting school superintendent in a school setting along with coursework and projects to maximize an intern's knowledge, performance, and dispositions as aligned with ELCC Professional Standards for District-Level Administrators. Candidates and superintendent mentors will be expected to participate in scheduled video conferences with the course instructor during the clinical experience.

District Level Practicum (3 Hours Blended). The practicum is aligned with the second semester of the school year. The professional growth and development of the aspiring district level administrator will culminate in the presentation of the portfolio based on ISLLC/IDOE Standards for district level school leader's criteria. Instructional leadership, staff and program evaluation, public relations, curriculum and staff development will be major areas of proficiency development during the Practicum.

This course prepares students for a doctoral degree in educational leadership. Students learn about the strengths and limitations of various research strategies. They apply this understanding by analyzing current problems of specific interest to district administrators, with the goal of proposing several potential solutions that take a studied approach, including generating and analyzing data to inform decisions. The process includes concepts such as problem definition, evaluation of appropriate methodologies, research design, reliability, and ethical considerations. The course research project will present the family of proposed solutions. The course will be offered concurrently with EDL-700.

This course examines the source of all education policy and frameworks to address the emerging local, state, and national issues and trends in district administration and supervision that have the potential to significantly influence the future direction of education in the candidate's state. It describes how the educational leader can address emerging issues and trends, build the necessary leadership competence and local stakeholder coalitions to respond to these issues, and develop into a leader who can deal effectively with the pace of change and influence resolutions on current issues. Prerequisite: EDL-620

This course is designed to develop understandings and skills associated with creating a school culture that is responsive to change/reform and embodies the philosophical underpinnings of systemic change and improvement. Students will research, discuss, and plan for the use of theories of organizational change and explore various strategies to bring these theories into practice by developing a collaborative vision that involves the success for all students based on collaborative input from all stakeholders. Students will create action plans to implement the vision and a communication plan and monitoring systems to help manage the proposed improvement and change.

This course explores the impact of the school leader's character and competence on the organization. Students will be challenged to strengthen their level of moral leadership as they confront ethical and legal issues. Strategies for personal and spiritual development will be considered.

This course explores the theoretical foundations related to organizational theory and adult learning and its impact on the organization and the school's leader. Students will build a collaborative learning community that engages school leaders in knowledge management and continuous improvement strategies aimed at transforming people, units, and the organization.

This course explores the school leader's relationship to the change process and practices of international and intercultural leadership in organizations and the individuals that make up these organizations. Students will examine the change processes, innovation, entrepreneurship, barriers to change, and successful structures and strategies aimed at improving the total organization, groups, and individual. Special emphasis will be placed on understanding multicultural globalization and its impact on how leadership is exercised in today's world.