Core Block
The courses listed here include critical educational topics that are important to understand educational institutions from different angles. These classes will provide students with the conceptual and theoretical foundations to understand how to navigate, design, and innovate practices within educational institutions. Students formalize their understanding around key themes such as student development, educational policy, curriculum, school reform, teaching, learning, leadership, and community partnerships. These classes provide the foundation to engage in critical inquiry and school improvement .
Core Block: 27 Units
- EDEL 9010 – Critical Inquiry for Transformative Change
- EDEL 9018 – Transformative Teaching and Learning in Innovative Classrooms and Organizations
- EDEL 9003 - Creating Equity Driven Organizations: Change Theory
- EDEL 9024 – Transforming Education for Equity and Justice
- EDEL 9009 – Professional Learning & Talent Management for Transformative Change
- EDEL 9014 - Data-Driven Assessment and Decision-Making for Transformative Change
- EDEL 9005 - Policy Creation, Implementation, and Evaluation for Equitable Outcomes
- EDEL 9015 - Leadership Practices for Decolonization, Healing, and Liberation
- EDEL 9043 – Management of Human, Fiscal, & Material Resources for Equity*
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- EDEL 9071 – Leadership, Policy & Organizational Governance in the Community College*
Research Block
The courses listed here prepare students to develop research skills that will allow them to gather and analyze data about student performance, equity, and teaching effectiveness as part of their professional practice. Through these classes, students will learn how to design, implement, and evaluate research projects that are necessary to examine whether or not an educational institution is fulfilling its mission. These blocks of classes are critical to help students become critical consumers of research and skillful practitioners who can engage in qualitative or qualitative assessment. Additionally, these classes will provide students with the foundational knowledge to create the methodological design for their dissertation work.
Research Block: 13 Units
- EDEL 9001 - Qualitative Research for Transformative Policy and Practice Change
- EDEL 9002- Quantitative Research for Transformative Policy and Practice Change
- EDEL 9011, 9012, and 9013 - Applied Inquiry 1, 2, and 3
Professional Development
The courses listed here aim to create a space for a cycle of reflection in action. Our students are educational practitioners that require opportunities to engage in collaborative dialogue to discuss current issues that they experience in their work context. The Proseminars on Contemporary Issues for Educational leaders are led by field experts who will bring real case studies to discuss strategies to navigate complex scenarios and identify effective mechanisms to lead groups and institutions. These classes are an opportunity to implement what has been learned in previous courses.
Professional Development: 8 Units
- EDEL 9017 - Proseminar on Contemporary Issues for Educational Leaders
- Topics Include:
- Use of institutional data to address critical student issues
- Media and organizational communication
- Advocacy and conflict resolution
- Construction of equity narratives using institutional data
- Building and sustaining community partnerships
- Professional networks and career development
- Law and organizational functioning
- Grant writing
Dissertation Block
Students enroll in these research seminars to focus on the design and implementation of their dissertation work. These classes occur parallel to the rest of the courses and are based on the academic mentoring and professional advice of the dissertation chair. Students meet and work with their chair regularly to guarantee the effective progression of their individual research projects and the writing of their dissertation.
Dissertation Block: 12 Units
- EDEL 9990 - Dissertation
To find out which classes are available during a specific semester, please visit the class schedule webpage.
Updated: December 13, 2024