Education Leadership (K-12) Program
The Education Leadership master’s degree is for teachers and other professional staff in birth-grade 12 schools who want to develop their leadership skills.
Professionals pursuing this degree are the leaders and future leaders of our schools. This graduate program helps educators promote continuous improvement strategies and effective administrative practices to support school-wide initiatives.
Students in this program may choose from 2 paths.
One path leads directly toward the K-12 Principal licensure. If you choose this pathway, the electives you take will prepare you for the K-12 Principal licensure.
The other path allows students who are not interested in becoming a K-12 Principal to focus their elective coursework on their professional interests and aspirations.
Graduates lead their school buildings or programs through work in:
- student services
- curriculum and instruction
- educational technology
- student assessment
- team leader
- mentoring
- school business management
- early childhood education
- alternative education
- charter leadership
- community relations
The Education Leadership (K-12) program consists of 33 credits that combine core Leadership Education courses, Education Leadership courses, and electives.
See the required courses for the Education Leadership (K-12) master’s degree program.
In addition to your classes, you’ll also need to complete a capstone writing project and a comprehensive examination.
In the capstone project, students integrate, extend, critique, and apply learned knowledge and evidence- based practices that they gained throughout the program.
Students complete LDRS 618: Scholarship, and LDRS 619: Leadership Capstone Experience.
Your capstone project may include a thesis, manuscript, action research project, national presentation, or other project approved by your capstone advisor.
Students who select the thesis option will enroll in LDRS 699: Master’s Thesis instead of LDRS 619: Leadership Capstone Experience.
Each student must also complete a comprehensive examination.
We offer the comprehensive examination experience the Wednesday before commencement during the academic year.
Contact your capstone advisor for summer dates.
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