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Academic Areas & Divisions
Educational Leadership & Policy Studies
Teaching and Coursework In Policy, Organizations, and Leadership
Teaching—through courses, independent study, and close mentoring relationships—is a central commitment of the faculty in the Policy, Organizations, and Leadership strand of EdLPS. In our teaching, we create close connections between our research, teaching, and service activities.
Coursework clusters around three interrelated core strands:
- Leadership: Leadership and the exercise of significant, responsible influence in educational organizations.
- Organizations: The nature and design of educational organizations and the dynamics of organizational change.
- Policy: The formulation, implementation, and impacts of educational policy.
Newly entering students explore one or more of these strands through introductory sequences that build a solid foundation of ideas and skills. For example:
| Leadership | Organizations | Policy | |
Foundational Sequence |
EDLPS 565: Intro to Leadership--Fall | EDLPS 550: Intro to Organizations--Winter | EDLPS 560: Intro to Policy--Fall |
| a. Introuctory (Masters + doc) Followw-up (Mostly doc, some Masters) |
EDLPS 570: Critical Perspectives on Leadership) - Winter | EDLPS 551: Foundational Studies in Complex Organizations-Spring | EDLPS 579: Policy Implementation-Spring |
As students advance they then pursue further coursework (see Course Syllabi) in advanced seminars that dig deeper into particular areas within these strands (e.g., educational finance or economics, politics of educational policy) and integrative seminars that bring different disciplinary perspectives, to bear on broad areas of leadership and policy interest, such as
- The connections between policy and instructional improvement
- The redesign of the school
- The achievement gap
- The connections between leadership and learning
- Urban education: challenges and prospects
- Organizational learning
- Leadership and the rhetoric of persuasion
Other courses, offered elsewhere in the College and University, round out individualized programs of study, built to maximize the students’ ability to pursue individual passions and professional goals (see What It Means to Study Here)
Educational Leadership & Policy Studies
- Overview
- Instruction
- Research
- Program Brochure
Faculty
- Antony, James
- Beadie, Nancy
- Brown, Sharan
- Contreras, Frances
- Elfers, Ana
- Gallucci, Chrysan
- Ginsberg, Margery
- Halverson, Tom
- Hoffman, Jennifer
- Honig, Meredith
- Hune, Shirley
- Ishimaru, Ann
- Kerdeman, Deborah
- Kerr, Donna
- Kimball, Kathy
- Knapp, Michael
- Lopez, Sara
- Lott, Joe
- Nerad, Maresi
- Olswang, Steven (Emeritus)
- Plecki, Margaret
- Roza, Marguerite
- Taylor, Ed
- Wasley, Patricia
- Williamson-Lott, Joy
- Zumeta, William