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This course is designed to provide an overview of educational leadership responsibilities and concerns to prospective administrators and supervisors concentrating on history, theory, and future trends in education.

This course is designed to acquaint prospective teachers, administrators, and supervisors with various legal aspects concerning the school, and with the legal rights of students and teachers.

The primary purpose of this course is to assist prospective school administrators and supervisors in developing their leadership abilities, knowledge, understanding, and philosophy of educational supervision.

This course is a study of school district business management functions and financing including such topics as accounting, purchasing and auxiliary services.

This course is designed to examine the concept of personnel administration and problems related to personnel programs, policies and procedures; and to relate goals of organization and management to goals and welfare of staff members.

This course is designed to provide students an opportunity to identify current trends and support for curricula designs to maximize organizational and instructional implementation.

This survey course includes general information related to group dynamics, leadership styles, decision making, communication, school law and finance.

This course is the culminating activity in the initial certification program in Education Leadership. Students are required to satisfactorily compile and present a portfolio of their work in the leadership program before a faculty panel.

This course provides the leadership candidate with knowledge and performance opportunities in the primary areas of human resource, financial and facility management, as well as compliance with relevant local, state and federal law.

This course provides the leadership candidate with knowledge and performance opportunities in the primary areas of improving student engagement and school culture, improving communication with stakeholders, and engaging all stakeholders in addressing school goals.

Prerequisites: EDEL 6300, EDEL 6400. This course provides the leadership candidate withknowledge and performance opportunities in the primary areas of assessing student-focused learning environments as well as teacher feedback and evaluation systems.

Prerequisites: EDEL 6300 and EDEL 6400. This course provides the leadership candidate with knowledge and performance opportunities in teh primary areas of addressing the impact of poverty on learning environments, and strategies to differentiate and engage diverse learners in the school community.

Prerequisite: Admission to NL5 program in Education Leadership. This course is taught in conjunction with the first semester of initial leadership training.

Prerequisite: Admission to NL5 program in Education Leadership and satisfactory completion of EDEL 6610. This course is taught in conjunction with the second semester of initial leadership training.

Prerequisite: Admission to NL5 program in Education Leadership and satisfactory completion of EDEL 6611. This course is taught in conjunction with the final semester of initial leadership training.

Prerequisites: EDEL 6500, EDEL 6600. This course provides the leadership candidate with knowledge and performance opportunities in the primary areas of the continuous improvement process for teaching and learning, including data collection and management.

Prerequisites: EDEL 6500, EDEL 6600. This course provides the leadership candidate with knowledge and performance opportunites in teh primary areas of synthesizing overall program content and residency experiences leading toward effective school improvement planning and implementation.