Educational Leadership
The Educational Leadership Program
The principal purpose of the Educational Leadership Program is to provide professional/academic education for individuals preparing for leadership and mid-management administrative positions (i.e., elementary school principal, secondary school principal, community education director, staff administrative positions (i.e., school district business managers, technology coordinators, curriculum coordinators), and upper-echelon administrative positions (i.e., superintendent of schools).
Minnesota State University Moorhead also offers a highly individualized program to prepare aspiring administrators for licensure in Minnesota as a Director of Community Education, Director of Special Education, K-12 principal, and Superintendent. The program is planned as a competency-based program to meet each licensure area. Aspiring K-12 principals, superintendents, and directors of special education must attain a minimum of 60 semester credits, which must include a completed master’s degree in any field. Six hours of ED 794 Practicum is required for the first licensure (three seperate practica). Aspiring directors of community education must attain 20 semester graduate credits and hold a bachelor’s degree prior to enrollment and participate in a minimum of two practica in the master’s degree.
The organization of the program follows the Transformational Leadership Process of development. The instructional program focuses on the development of professional and personnel knowledge, skills, and dispositions using appropriate adult learning strategies. The program is built around several mutually supportive, interdependent curricular area dimensions that reflect intended programmatic outcomes found in the NCATE [ELCC] standards and state programs in Minnesota and North Dakota.
Performance based assessment is found throughout the program and integrated into the development of students. The program is based upon student demonstration of competency through a culminating portfolio. Selected performance based assessments accompany each class. In addition to the course requirements for performance based assessments, all students are required to complete a portfolio using exhibits from their courses, their practica, and fieldwork to insure all competencies are demonstrated.
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Program Specific Information
| Boyd Bradbury |
218-477-2019 |
| Lommen 108 B |
bradbury@mnstate.edu |
Graduate Studies Information Requests
| Graduate Studies Office | 218-477-2134 |
| 215 Owens | graduate@mnstate.edu |