SARKISIAN FELLOWSHIP | Giving
Coach Steve Sarkisian and his wife Stephanie gave $100,000 to establish the Sarkisian Endowed Fellowship.
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NCQTL | Research
The New Head Start-funded center will be overseen by PI Susan Sandall and Co-PI Gail Joseph.
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Educational Leadership & Policy Studies

Specialization in Policy, Organizations, and Leadership

Faculty and students in this strand of EdLPS seek to understand how P-12 and postsecondary educators, and their partners outside the formal system, individually and collectively:

Exercise leadership that is focused on learning and social justice
Formulate and implement policies that support powerful, equitable teaching and learning
Design and renew equitable and excellent educational institutions across and beyond the P-20 continuum

The core of our work—reflected in a vibrant and expanding program of research (see Research Foci and Opportunities)— concerns the equitable renewal of op_teaching educational systems, institutions, and practice. We are deeply engaged in questions about individual, social, organizational, and systems learning and we apply these ideas to pressing problems of educational practice, among them: In what ways do policy and leadership support the professional learning of educators as well as students, in the context of high accountability? How to redesign the high school so that it provides an equitable, high quality learning experience for the full range of students it serves? How can data inform leadership practice, and ultimately help guide the improvement of teaching and learning? How do systems align resources with learning improvement priorities?

Students in this strand of EdLPS are preparing to be scholars, analysts, and leaders who will exercise significant and responsible influence on the quality of teaching and learning in and out of schools (see Student Profiles). Faculty bring to this work a variety of disciplinary backgrounds (among them, sociology, administrative and organizational theory, political science, economics and finance, multicultural theory, and learning theory), and collective working experience as teachers, school leaders, district administrators, state agency officials, and postsecondary administrators (see Faculty Profiles).

Our research centrally informs our teaching (see Teaching and Coursework). Students combine these courses with others offered in the College and University into individually tailored programs of study (see What it Means to Study Here).