Educational Leadership Learning Aims

Upon successful completion of the educational leadership program, students will have the knowledge, understandings, abilities, and dispositions to:

• Facilitate the development, articulation, implementation, and stewardship of a vision of learning that is shared and supported by staff, students, families, and the school community.
• Advocate, nurture, and sustain a school culture and instructional program conducive to student learning and staff professional growth.
• Ensure management of the organization, operations, and resources for a safe, efficient, and effective learning environment.
• Collaborate with families and community members, responding to diverse community interests and needs, and mobilizing community resources.
• Act with integrity, fairness, and in an ethical manner in all aspects of providing leadership for the school.
• Understand, respond to, and influence the larger political, social, economic, legal, and cultural context in which the school resides.
• Manifest social responsibility within the context of the leadership position held.
• Contribute professionally and personally to the broader community.