3 semester credits

Effective educational leaders work to foster shared understanding of and commitment to making sure that every student learns and succeeds; this requires the ability to communicate and the capacity to create conditions and processes that foster collaborative problem solving and decision making. Education professionals in this course explore the characteristics of effective leaders. They learn how to model open and responsive communication as well as how to create time and use tools to ensure that such interactions are common within the school and throughout the school community. They also explore the role of schools in communicating with and drawing upon community resources of various types, including public agencies and organizations that serve youth and families. Through this course, education professionals work toward establishing the personal, ethical, and moral platforms to become effective leaders who model and promote ethical and productive civic behavior.