Educational Leadership - K-12 Administration

Overview

Leaders today must understand and practice leadership within diverse fluid contexts that include cultural, social, political, environmental, technological, and global borders.

The Educational Leadership - K-12 Administration program at Northern Arizona University provides courses within a leadership development program that integrates educational and professional foundations, leadership principles, professional ethics, and development of a research agenda that evolves from issue-focused and problem-based experiences and goals.

Core doctoral experiences are embedded in unique professional service within an applied internship experience for K-12 students. This customized program mentors students to lead with integrity, and in an ethical and responsive manner and to demonstrate skills, knowledge, and dispositions that enhance openness to change, ongoing inquiry, relationship empowerment, leadership self-reflection, and empathic perspectives.

Students Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of the degree, students will: An education leader applies knowledge that promotes the success of every student by:

• Elucidate the philosophical theories and approaches to inquiry and schools of practice in education, articulates their sources, and illustrates both their applications and their relationships to K-12. 

• Assess the contributions of major figures and organizations in the sociological foundations of education, describes major methodologies and practices, and identifies how they impact the current field of education. 

• Understand one’s own leadership style and intercultural development level and be able to articulate the cultural environment and views of others.

• Analyze organizations from philosophical, social, historical, political, and intercultural points of view. 

• Analyze historical processes and events and their interrelation, then synthesize and evaluate the pertinent arguments and debates to explore how leaders in education have addressed various organizational and societal challenges.

• Analyze the impact, interactions, and implications of various public sectors on educational systems

• Apply information about an organization (its cultures, environments, patterns, etc.) to develop organizational strategies designed to improve the quality of education and promote the success of all students, while sustaining an institution’s mission. 

• Equitably and ethically sustain people, processes, information, and assets, to fulfill the mission, vision and goals of their institutions

• Use precise listening, speaking, and writing skills to engage in honest, open dialogue

• Demonstrate the ability to develop responsive, cooperative, mutually beneficial, and ethically sound internal and external relationships; ones that nurture diversity, foster student success, and promote the organization’s mission

• Set high standards for self and others, demonstrate personal accountability, and ensure the long-term growth of self and the organization