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EDL 503 Educational Leadership Practice This course helps to articulate the interrelationship between theory and practice and promotes the philosophy that future school leaders should be life-long learners and proactive about using data for innovation and change. This course effectively ensures instructional practice is intellectually challenging, culturally responsive, authentic to student experiences, recognizes student strengths, and is differentiated and personalized. This will occur when you can effectively assess and develop the capacity of staff to assess the value and applicability of emerging educational trends and the findings of research for the school and its improvement. Fundamentally, this course will teach you how to effectively empower and entrust teachers and staff with collective responsibility for meeting the academic, social, emotional, and physical needs of each student, pursuant to the mission, vision, and core values of the school. This course also deals with administrative decision-making in the context of the school, district, and community. Participants will be confronted with problems in instructional leadership using data driven decision-making to create a climate for change by effectively reviewing the school’s mission and vision and adjusting them to changing expectations and opportunities for the school and changing needs and situations of students. Dates: April 2, 2025 to June 11, 2025 with virtual Zoom meetings on Wednesdays, 5:00 - 7:00 PM. The Professor will be Dr. Sharon Dungee - sharon.dungee@stonybrook.edu

EDL 541 School Building Leadership The design of this course will be focused around the concept of Leadership for Change. Providing leadership, through what can be a massive potential for school restructuring, will be the challenge of tomorrow's school principals. You will be shown how to implement coherent systems of curriculum, instruction, and assessment that promote the mission, vision, and core values of the school, embody high expectations for student learning, align with academic standards, and are culturally responsive. Followed by providing coherent systems of academic and social supports, services, extracurricular activities, and accommodations to meet the range of learning needs of each student, ensuring that each student has equitable access to effective teachers, learning opportunities, academic and social support, and other resources necessary for success. The course will focus attention on the needs of the school community by demonstrating the importance to empower and motivate teachers and staff to the highest levels of professional practice and to continuous learning and improvement, which will lead to the collective responsibility for meeting the academic, social, emotional, and physical needs of each student, pursuant to the mission, vision, and core values of the school. This will culminate with showing you how to create the means for the school community to partner with families to support student learning in and out of school, all the while using methods of continuous improvement to achieve the vision, fulfill the mission, and promote the core values of the school. Dates: June 18, 2025 to July 31, 2025 with virtual Zoom meetings on Wednesdays, 5:00 - 7:00 PM. The Professor will be Dr. Harry Dean - harold.dean@stonybrook.edu