Description

This course prepares aspiring leaders to create a framework of effective practices that work together to drive significant impacts on student achievement. Aspiring leaders will learn to confront the challenge of variability in student outcomes through access to a guaranteed and viable curriculum, careful monitoring of learning, and systemic interventions for students who struggle. Particular attention is given to the process of teachers and leaders working collaboratively in Professional Learning Communities to engage in collective inquiry and action research to achieve better results for the students they serve. *Candidates will be aware of and able to support teachers in the foundational concepts underlying the science of teaching reading, including the importance of systematic, structured literacy instruction emphasizing phonemic awareness, phonological awareness, decoding, word recognition, spelling, vocabulary knowledge, and comprehension.

Lecture Hours: 3.00 Lab Hours: 0Total Hours: 3.00