COMPLEXITY, COMMUNICATION AND COLLABORATION

Catalog description

This program signature course will have candidates explore educational organizations as complex adaptive systems, and the role of educational leaders in promoting growth-oriented processes while increasing the flow of information throughout the system. Specific topics will include varied contemporary models for educator collaboration, distributed leadership, feedback loops, and information sharing. Additional focus will be placed on ways educational leaders can navigate increasingly complex times to promote co-evolutionary environments where people and systems can grow in tandem. Systems thinking, the concept of nested systems, networks, and complexity theory will be highlighted.