Education Leadership
Program Description
The Education Leadership program is designed to prepare candidates for leadership and management positions in a variety of educational settings. The program emphasizes an understanding of the complexities of change in schools, communities, and organizations. Participants are expected to develop and demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to create and maintain learning environments that value diversity, continual knowledge acquisition, instructional leadership, innovative and ethical decision-making, reflective practice, and successful achievement of all school-aged youth.
Learning opportunities are presented in large and small group discussions, on-the-job training, case studies, lectures, scenarios, simulations, problem-based activities, internship experiences which are integrated into the course work, and an annual leadership conference.
News and Announcements
Startlingly Sensible Achievement Gap Fix
You cannot understand modern education policy without a grasp of the achievement gap. On average, low-income students have lower academic achievement than affluent students.
Conference Coming
The Education Leadership program is designed to prepare candidates for leadership and management positions in a variety of educational settings. The program emphasizes an understanding of the complexities of change in schools, communities, and organizations. Participants are expected to develop and demonstrate the
EDLE Newsletters
Welcome to the quarterly newsletter of the Education Leadership Program. As our program has grown over the years, we have expanded the services and opportunities we provide to the larger educational community that ranges from northern and central Virginia to the nation and beyond. We want to keep you up to date about what our faculty, students, and community partners are doing to improve the quality of education leadership and K – 12 education in the region. Please take a look at our newsletter.
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