Educational Leadership, MA

The department of Educational Leadership, Research, and Foundations offers the Master of Arts degree in Educational Leadership. The program is accredited by the Colorado Department of Education (CDE), the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) and the Educational Leadership Constituency Council (ELCC). Through this program students will be in partnership with a faculty of outstanding professionals who are also leaders in the field of education. They have been selected because of their commitment to excellence, their outstanding record in teaching adults, and their ability to mentor and develop leaders. 

The curriculum of the Master’s degree in Educational Leadership has been carefully designed to ensure the development of educational leaders who can transform schools into learning communities in which all members of a diverse society are accorded opportunity and respect. This curriculum has been developed on a foundation of research in the areas of leadership, management, schooling, curriculum, instructional practices, adult development, and technology.  

As active participants in these programs, students will:

• Develop as leaders through an expanded self-knowledge and worldview
  
• Develop school management competencies and leadership strategies
• Learn how to guide an educational team as they integrate recommendations from research with an assessment of the needs of a school community and create a plan for student success
• Explore the political and social implications of schooling and the educational requirements of a diverse, democratic, multicultural society
• Discover how technology can be utilized to enhance management and communication
• Acquire the confidence necessary to ignite and inspire others 

Further, the selection of an emphasis area allows students to concentrate their coursework in an area of leadership in which they wish to develop a particular expertise: P-12 and Principal Licensure, or Student Affairs in Higher Education.