Improvement Science for Education Leadership.

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The course focuses on developing competency in the field of improvement science for all education leaders. Improvement science is a methodological framework that is undergirded by foundational principles that guide educational leaders to define problems, understand how the system produces the problems, identify changes to rectify the problems, and test the efficacy of those changes. While the pedagogy of improvement science will be the crux of the discourse, there will be a strong emphasis in data examination where students will learn how to identify an area for improvement and collect additional data using an equity audit. Students will explore and understand how to develop a root cause analysis and examine research on their problem. Ultimately students will be able to design a theory of improvement that includes aim statements, primary drivers, secondary drivers, and possible change ideas.