- Increase instructional leadership capacity for student learning
- Build community processes where members engage in and support one another in continuous, successful professional development, personal growth, and values-guided accountability
- Promote and apply reflective practices
- Engage in critical inquiry and continuous action research
- Share and model effective strategies for supporting knowledge creation and learning, and authentic assessment in the classroom and/or workplace
- Develop master-level writing, critical thinking and research skills
Learning Outcomes
- As an instructional leader, student achievement will increase as you implement new strategies, link theory to practice, reflect on practice, and follow a continual improvement process
- As a member of a learning community you will engage in dialogue, toward continuous growth and development. Additionally, you will be able to bring community processes into your classrooms and schools to enable collaborative dialogue for increased student achievement and school improvement
- Reflection will create the space for you to evaluate strategies and processes as well as promote reflective practice and learning within your classroom or school
- Integrated with reflection, data on student achievement will increase knowledge of best practice and influence sound decision making regarding curriculum and pedagogy
- Processing and communicating with colleagues will support and expand knowledge creation and strategies that will apply immediately to your classrooms and schools
- You will complete a Capstone research project, and using APA format, write your results in a journal article
