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T EDLD 570 Revolutionizing Leadership (5)
Explores novel ways of leading collaborative, community-based, learner centric educational environments. Discusses how leaders can build coalitions that include student and youth activists to generate systemic change.
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T EDLD 571 Community Grounded Systems Leadership (5)
Provides a critique of the current structure of educational organizations, policies and evaluation strategies. Discusses how community grounded, collaborative leadership approaches can dismantle oppressive and dysfunctional systems.
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T EDLD 572 Anti-racist and De-Colonial Frameworks in Education (5)
Uses critical race theory to analyze the effects of educational systems on Black Indigenous People of Color communities. Explores leadership practices that can be used to de-colonize education.
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T EDLD 573 Critical Pedagogies and Leadership (5)
Uses theory and research to critique existing instructional approaches and pedagogy. Explores how integration of relational learning, ancestral knowledge and community focus can be used to create antiracist and de-colonial educational systems and pedagogies.
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T EDLD 574 De-Colonizing Writing and Oral Praxis (5)
Introduces participants to writing and oral praxis within a decolonial lens. We will critique oppressive western dominant conventions of expression as intentional silencing of self and others.
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T EDLD 575 Human Capacity in Educational Institutions (5)
Focuses on effective human resource operations that reflect an organization's core values and analyzes human resource problems related to educational organizations.
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T EDLD 576 Education Law and Governance (5)
Focuses on persistent legal issues in education. Examines laws, regulations, policies and court cases that affect educational systems and practices.
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T EDLD 577 Funding, Budgets, and Inequities (5)
Focuses on current issues in public and private education finance, including P-12 education, higher education, civic and community organizations. Examines historic and contemporary inequities in federal, state, and local educational funding models.
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T EDLD 581 Introduction to De-Colonizing Research (5)
Course critiques educational research and western knowledge construction processes that traditionalize inequities across race, Indigeneity, class, gender, sexuality, ability, and related intersectional identities. Engages personal and professional development around decolonial approaches to research processes.
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T EDLD 582 Applied De-Colonizing Research Approaches (5)
Course discusses community grounded research as processes of fostering relational learning environments, intergenerational ways of knowing, researcher reflexivity, and applied theoretical approaches toward decolonization.
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T EDLD 583 De-Constructing Knowledges, Part 1 (5)
Course evokes research methods to challenge traditionalized educational processes. Weaves ancestral and community knowledges to address societal inequities to foster healing.
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T EDLD 584 Re-Constructing Knowledges, Part 2 (5)
Students apply previous learning to curate research methodology. Application of community grounded, relational research methods that integrate ancestral knowledges, disrupt and dismantle colonial systems, to foster healing.
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T EDLD 585 Proposing Relational Research (5)
Course focuses on developing a research plan to conduct a decolonial analysis within a specific research context.
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T EDLD 587 Disrupt and Dismantling Current Praxis (5)
Interrogating systems of inequalities through the lens of ancestral knowledge and current praxis. Centering collaborative design, evaluation and the implementation of decolonial and anti-oppressive systems of support.
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T EDLD 588 Relational Learning and Healing in Praxis (5)
Focuses on developing knowledge about Revolutionary Leadership to assess personal leadership skills. Use of relational learning approaches and crucial conversations to create a learning community.
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T EDLD 589 Leadership for Healing (5)
Recognizing historic and contemporary activism in resistance to oppressive systems, this course provides practical experiences for students to strengthen personal leadership through holistic healing models.
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T EDLD 590 Critical Approaches to Student Development (5)
Focuses on student engagement within various higher education institutions, including support structures and strategies to foster student learning and growth. Focus on students historically excluded from traditionalized higher education practice.
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T EDLD 591 Indigenous Leadership in Education and Community Contexts (5)
Provides an in depth understanding of the lived and unique perspectives within Indigenous leadership across education and community contexts including tribal, community, civic, and P-20 educational settings. This course will empower students to develop and strengthen Indigenous worldviews while making connections within and across tribal and diverse Indigenous communities.
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T EDLD 593 Critical Elements in Literacy (3)
Focuses on critical research-based practices in Pre-K-12 literacy and identifies achievement-gap closing best practices for economically, culturally, linguistically diverse students, and all historically under-served students. Students apply knowledge of this research-base in order to lead the implementation of effective literacy programs at all levels.
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T EDLD 594 School District Leadership (1-3, max. 3)
Focuses on conceptualizing district-wide leadership roles, including engagement with governance, regional and state level policies, school and district perspectives, employee development, data systems, and structural levers for change efforts. Credit/no-credit only.
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T EDLD 595 Equity-Focused District Leadership (3)
Focuses on leadership for equity, including assessment of culture and climate, modeling of healing approaches, and implementation and evaluation of district-wide structures that disrupt inequalities while fostering safe, nurturing school systems.
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T EDLD 596 District Level Instructional Leadership (3)
Focuses on collaborative leadership for the improvement of district-level instructional approaches, from district missions to the individual classrooms, centering equity for all students and employees, current issues and barriers, and approaches to implementing and assessing justice-oriented curricular and teaching approaches. Credit/no-credit only.
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T EDLD 600 Independent Study or Resarch (1-4, max. 4)
Faculty-supervised independent study or readings in areas of educational leadership of special interest or need to the student. Topics vary. Prerequisite: permission of instructor and approved program of study or readings. Offered: AWSpS.
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T EDLD 602 Community Grounded Praxis (1-6, max. 18)
Focuses on evaluation and reflection in a shared learning environment to enhance leadership knowledge, critique leadership praxis and develop community grounded approaches to demonstrate connections to the Ed.D. values. Credit/no-credit only.
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T EDLD 801 Dissertation in Practice (*-, max. 75)
Focuses on the implementation of the EdD in Educational Leadership dissertation in practice as a structured inquiry process investigating a critical problem of practice. Credit/no-credit only. Offered: AWSpS.
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T EDLD 802 Dissertation in Practice Seminar (1-3, max. 3)
Students share and discuss the challenges and progress of their respective dissertation in practice, providing insight, accountability, and support for one another. Credit/no-credit only. Offered: AWSp.
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