Policy Development and Decision-Making

Catalog description

This course prepares students to critically analyze and influence the policy environments shaping education. Focusing on how policy is developed, implemented, interpreted, and contested, students will explore dynamics between data, values, stakeholders, and governance. With attention to justice, ethics, and systems-level leadership, students will examine how local, state, and federal policy affects decision-making in their professional contexts. Assignments support students in implementation of a problem of practice, identifying relevant policy levers and constraints shaping improvement.