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• EDLR 6100: Educ Lead Theory and Practice

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This educational leadership graduate course will focus on theoretical foundations useful to the educational leader. Organizational theories relevant to schools and leadership processes essential to school effectiveness will be presented. Aspects of personal leadership style and capacity will be examined.
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• EDLR 6200: Curriculum Leadership

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This course studies the leadership and processes required to align course content, academic standards, and assessments of elementary, middle, and secondary schools curricula. It emphasizes the changing nature of curriculum, the essential elements and processes of curriculum development, and the principal as the curriculum leader. Resources will include Pennsylvania's Standards Aligned System (SAS) and the research base underlying its six components.
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• EDLR 6300: Legal Aspects of Educ Lead

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This course familiarizes the educational leadership graduate student with local, state and federal laws governing schools. Legal frameworks affecting public schools are presented. Particular attention is given to leadership for Special Education law. Application of school law at various levels of education leadership is emphasized.
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• EDLR 6400: School and Community Relations

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This course examines the leadership roles of supervisors, principals, and superintendents to communicate effectively within the school and community. It emphasizes the importance of designing school and community relations programs around the needs and issues of the school and the school district. Particular attention is given to communication with, and involvement of, internal and external publics in the school system.
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• EDLR 6500: Instructional Leadership

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This course is designed to provide principal candidates with a framework for effective, practical use of a variety of instructional strategies to promote best inclusive practices. These strategies are used with teachers to improve curriculum and instruction. Through various learning experiences, you will develop your knowledge, skills and professional dispositions that will help you to lead your school. The course is designed to help you develop a foundation for leadership by understanding what differentiated instruction is, why it is appropriate for all learners, and how to serve as an instructional leader in this area. Principal candidates will explore and analyze Standards-Based Instruction, Bloom's Taxonomy of the Cognitive Development, Writing Across the Curriculum, Multiple Intelligences, Response to Intervention, Inclusion, Multiple Measures of Data to inform Decision-Making, and Leadership and Differentiated Instruction to support a diverse student body at all grade levels.
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• EDLR 6600: Elem Principal Internship

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This on-site internship experience at the elementary school principal level provides the opportunity for practical experience under the direct supervision of university faculty and the on-site supervisor.
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• EDLR 6650: Sup Spec Ed Intern Early Int

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This on-site internship experience at the school district supervisor level provides the opportunity for practical experience under the direct supervision of university faculty and the on-site supervisor.
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• EDLR 6700: Secondary Principal Internship

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This on-site internship experience at the secondary principal level provides the opportunity for practical experience under the direct supervision of university faculty and the on-site supervisor.
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• EDLR 6750: Sup Spec Ed Intern School Age

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This on-site internship experience at the school district supervisor level provides the opportunity for practical experience under the direct supervision of university faculty and the on-site supervisor.
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• EDLR 6800: Leadership for School Change

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This educational leadership graduate course studies the principles, themes, and patterns for implementing educational change. Tools, techniques, and strategies for leading effective change are presented. The educational leader as change facilitator is emphasized.
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