Education Leadership
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
Arlington County Public Schools Superintendent to Join Mason Faculty
Robert G. Smith, superintendent of Arlington (Va.) Public Schools (APS), will join the Mason faculty this fall as an associate professor of education in the College of Education and Human Development (CEHD).
Associate Professor David Brazer is the Sustainability Spotlight for the month of July
A professor in the College of Education and Human Development, David Brazer has made an effort to encourage sustainability in his courses.
Brazer currently teaches a class called “Using Research to Lead School Improvement” for students in the Education Leadership Program.
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