Strategic and Cultural Leadership

Catalog description

This course examines the skills required of school systems leaders and prepares them to enact these skills within the contemporary political, social, economic and cultural context in which an educational system operates. The course requires individuals to practice these strategic and cultural leadership skills and reflect on their impact. Self-directed learning prepares students to "systematically and collaboratively develop a positive district culture to promote continuous student growth and staff development as well as gain experience with articulating and modeling a clear vision of the district's culture that involves students, families, and staff" (adapted from the "Framework for Leadership," Pennsylvania Department of Education). The course serves as one of the four courses that satisfy the requirements of Pennsylvania's Letter of Eligibility certification.