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department Educational Leadership and Policy Studies (X) |
Emphasis on the principles, processes, and content of constitutional law in an effort to provide new insights and new tools with which school administrators and teachers may examine questions involving political and civil rights in the United States, especially as these affect the conduct of education. Specific topics on constitutional freedom include the obligation to go to school; legal controls over curriculum, teachers, and students; and racial integration and equal financing of public schools. Open to law students and to nonlaw students enrolled as graduate students or as upper-division undergraduates. Credit/no credit only. Offered: jointly with LAW 444.
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Development of American education in cultural context; colonial period, influence of Enlightenment, and common school movement. Offered: jointly with HSTAA 458.
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Development of American education in cultural context: progressive education, recent criticism, continuing issues and trends. Offered: jointly with HSTAA 459.
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Selected educational issues, policies, and contexts. Evolution of the American education enterprise, legal issues, professionalism, finance, and other vital educational concerns.
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Study of such topics as planning, development, supervision, organization, operation, or evaluation of current or emerging programs or problems in education.
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Students developing studies under this rubric should be advised that a report or a paper setting forth the results of their investigations should be regarded as a basic part of the program.
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First course in principal certification program; explores Washington state laws, legal principles, context of public schools, multicultural issues, changing population. Essential skills of leadership: communication, human relations, strategies for shared decision making, and dealing with conflict. (Open only to students admitted to the EDLPS Principal/Program Administrator Preparation Program.)
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Topics include moral dimensions of leadership; modes of inquiry; organizational theory and change; history of educational reform; curriculum deliberation and instructional leadership and supervision; school-centered inquiry and decision-making; policy, planning, and program evaluation; issues on diversity and multicultural education; American and Washington State school law; school finance and resource allocation; school-community relations. Instruction occurs in units and seminar throughout the academic year. Prerequisite: admission to Principal/Program Administrator Preparation Program.
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Topics include moral dimensions of leadership; modes of inquiry; organizational theory and change; history of educational reform; curriculum deliberation and instructional leadership and supervision; school-centered inquiry and decision-making; policy, planning, and program evaluation; issues on diversity and multicultural education; American and Washington State school law; school finance and resource allocation; school-community relations. Instruction occurs in units and seminar throughout the academic year. Prerequisite: admission to Principal/Program Administrator Preparation Program.
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Topics include moral dimensions of leadership; modes of inquiry; organizational theory and change; history of educational reform; curriculum deliberation and instructional leadership and supervision; school-centered inquiry and decision-making; policy, planning, and program evaluation; issues on diversity and multicultural education; American and Washington State school law; school finance and resource allocation; school-community relations. Instruction occurs in units and seminar throughout the academic year. Prerequisite: admission to Principal/Program Administrator Preparation Program.
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Development and administration of systems for selection, evaluation and clinical supervision of certificated and classified personnel. Focuses on leadership models and transition to a leadership role, including opening a school or program and dealing with student/school crises. (Only for students admitted to the EDLPS Principal/Program Administrator Program.)
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Integration of theory and internship experience; group process laboratory and peer feedback and review of written work, oral presentations, and journals. Reading and discussion of crucial issues. (Only for students admitted to the EDLPS Principal/Program Administrator Preparation Program.) Credit/no credit only.
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Application of principles utilized in planning, organizing, and decision making in districts and schools. Formation of policy and procedures; formal and informal organization; power, authority, and responsibility; utilization of people, time, and space.
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Financial practices and problems in districts and schools considered, including state and federal support plans, school plant planning, school business management, resource allocation, and budgeting and educational accountability.
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Examines the dynamics of the interface between the public schools and the community. Special attention is given to the findings of research in relation to school-community power, types, and organizational influences.
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Major emphasis on the analysis of factors to be considered in the selection and evaluation of teachers and administrators and considerations in staff development.
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Theory of the process of supervising instructionally effective school personnel, including an analysis of the techniques of supervision, theory of leadership and group process, interpersonal relations, and evaluation of teacher effectiveness.
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Overview of Washington State specific legal provisions affecting the operations and management of public schools, including school organization and operations, school finance, separation of church and state, school employment, student conduct, discipline and rights, equity, intergovernmental agreements, and student health and safety. .
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Examination of procedures and techniques pertinent to the management of organizational conflict. Among the areas covered are collective bargaining, grievance procedures, mediation, fact finding, and arbitration.
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Overview of major state and federal laws affecting the operation and management of special education programs in public schools. Emphasis upon procedural and substantive rights of children with disabling conditions. Offered: jointly with EDSPE 504; W.
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Contemporary issues, problems, and techniques of educational facility administration. Emphasis placed on such factors as planning, financing, development, design, construction, operation, liabilities, property management, state regulation. Credit/no credit only.
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Integration of theory and internship experience. Readings and discussion of crucial issues, presentations by local school superintendents: district budgeting processes, personnel, staff relations and collective bargaining, superintendent-board relations, bond issues, facilities planning, superintendent as instructional leader. Credit/no credit only.
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Readings, lectures and discussions pertaining to significant topics of special and current interest to educators. Focus is on issues of particular concern to K-12 administrators and other educators in leadership roles in districts and schools. Topics vary; check Time Schedule for topic(s) to be covered.
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An exploration of fundamental questions that have faced educational leaders in the past and most likely will continue to face them in the future. Foundational studies in history, philosophy, and sociology provide the basis for discussion and writing about these fundamental questions.
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Philosophy of education considered as a study of the conceptual basis for educational policy and practice. Emphasis on relationships between enduring educational problems and fundamental philosophic issues; concepts that feature centrally in educational discourse; and conceptual analysis as a means for clarifying decisions regarding educational policy and practice.
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