May 29, 2024  
2023-24 Graduate Catalog 
    
2023-24 Graduate Catalog

Master of Science in Educational Leadership (#5051, #5010, and #5080 Licenses)


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Program Delivery

The Educational Leadership Program is delivered through a Learning Community. The Learning Community participants meet together one weekend a month over a twenty-month period. While Learning Communities come together on a regular, scheduled basis, each Learning Community and the nested groups within this structure often create supplementary group time beyond the mandate of the program. Each Learning Community is co-facilitated by two instructors who follow the cohort through the entirety of the program.

The Learning Community provides a setting for teaching and learning culminating in enhanced performance in the workplace. Learning Communities are viewed by school leaders as the preferred model as they create a social, collegial, learning culture which promotes reflective practice leading to deeper understanding and solutions for PK-12 schools.

Educational Leadership Program


Educators who already have a Master of Education may simultaneously earn a Principal License (#5051) and Director of Instruction License (#5010) - 24 credits total.

With the completion of an additional 2-credit practicum, participants with a prior M.Ed. may also earn a Director of Special Education and Pupil Services License (#5080) - 26 credits total.

Upon successful completion of all program requirements, students may either earn licenses #5051 and #5010 and a Master of Science degree - 30 credits total or add in license #5080 - 32 credits total.

Educators who already hold a Principal License (#5051) can earn an add-on Director of Instruction License (#5010) or Director of Special Education and Pupil Services License (#5080) - 8 credits each.

Director of Special Education and Pupil Services Add-On License (#5080)


The Director of Special Education and Pupil Services program is an additional licensure program (#5080) for candidates who have completed a master’s degree program in school administration, with licensure as a Principal (DPI #5051) and Director of Instruction (DPI #5010). The program allows instructional leaders to further expand their knowledge, skills and dispositions to reform systems that can teach to the edges from the most advanced to the most striving learners. The program contains project-based and performance-based learning opportunities to support candidate knowledge, skills and dispositions for School Leadership specific to Special Education and Pupil Services.

Director of Instruction Add-On License (#5010)


This program is designed for administrators who already have their principal license seeking the #5010 Director of Instruction license for district or central office administration positions (e.g., directors, coordinators, etc.).

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