EDU 6040 Change Leadership for Equity, Social Justice and Excellence
This course will focus on leadership for effective school-based programs in the context of diverse learning communities. Attention to policies and practices regarding equity, social justice, and the purpose of public education will be explored. Highly regarded and emerging research underlying student access to quality curriculum and instruction will be examined. Personal and community biases will be analyzed in terms of culture, gender, language diversity, poverty, privilege, religion, special needs, sexual orientation, social class and race. The equitable distribution of high levels of student learning across race and class in non-public schools and school cultures that foster equity and academic excellence will be explored. Doctoral students will develop an understanding of the leadership capacities needed to ensure access and academic equity for all members of the school community. Course participants will be provided opportunities to examine issues and frameworks related to equity, diversity and social justice and their implications for leadership in varied educational settings. Through coursework, group work, an equity audit and situational case studies, students will be challenged to examine their knowledge, skills and attitudes toward these critical issues, become sensitive to the plight of disenfranchised and marginalized student populations and understand how to proactively respond to them.
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