Educational Administration

Courses

ED ADM 5626 Theories of Educational Administration: 3 semester hours

Prerequisites: Admission to EdS program. This course addresses the impact of various theories of educational administration on district-level leadership. It emphasizes communication theory, motivation theory, leadership theory and organizational change theory.

ED ADM 5627 Advanced School Systems Supervision: 3 semester hours

Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing. This course focuses on supervision from the system perspective of school administration. It emphasizes effective and systematic supervision of school administration, school programs, and school curriculum. This class focuses on practical application of supervision practices.

ED ADM 6205 Legal Contexts of Education: 3 semester hours

Prerequisites: ED ADM 6201 (may be taken concurrently), or consent of instructor. This course is a critical examination of both (1) local, state, and federal laws and (2) Western notions of justice within which education policies are constituted and their concomitant practices implemented.

ED ADM 6301 Education Policy for Administrators: 3 semester hours

Prerequisite: Graduate standing. This course explores the complex political landscape of American education, which includes considerations of local, state, and federal control and policymaking. Candidates will learn and utilize tools necessary to conduct educational policy analysis.

ED ADM 6305 School District Administration: 3 semester hours

Prerequisite: Graduate standing. This course examines current research and best practices related to school district administration. It focuses on major central office issues, including board and superintendent relations, central office organization, the function and authority of assistant superintendents and program directors, and the administrative team approach to school district administration.

ED ADM 6306 Special Education Administration: 3 semester hours

Prerequisites: Graduate standing. This course explores organizational issues in special education and implications for practices and procedures. The course gives specific attention to special education delivery systems, compliance standards, funding sources, and regulatory standards.

ED ADM 6307 Integrated Curriculum for Special Education Administrators: 3 semester hours

Prerequisites: Graduate standing. This course focuses on developing special education administrators' skills related to understanding, supervising, and evaluating the integration and differentiation of curriculum for students with and without disabilities.

ED ADM 6402 Human Resource Management in Schools: 3 semester hours

Prerequisites: Graduate standing. This course is a comprehensive, systematic study of human resource topics, such as planning, recruitment, selection, induction, and retention relative to school personnel. The course explores district-level negotiations and salary development.

ED ADM 6403 School District Public Relations and Communication: 3 semester hours

Prerequisites: Graduate standing. This course examines critical perspectives relevant to home-school-community relations, including the role of digital communications and crisis management, as well as methods for successful communication with school district constituencies.

ED ADM 6424 Leading Instructional Improvement and Innovation: 3 semester hours

Prerequisites: Graduate standing. This course focuses on the leadership of district-level instructional improvement. Topics include comprehensive school improvement efforts, evaluation of the impact of instructional programs, engagement of community stakeholders, and the impact of innovative learning structures on student achievement.

ED ADM 6435 Legal Leadership and Management for Superintendents: 3 semester hours

Prerequisites: Graduate standing. This course explores superintendents' responsibilities related to education law as well as state and federal regulations. The course explores how superintendents can guide their school systems to lawfully and wisely use and allocate resources; adhere to statutory and case law; manage the evaluations of personnel; and address issues of equity and inclusion. The course also explores financial, personnel, and equity policies that govern public schools in the United States and the state of Missouri.

ED ADM 6445 Character Education and Development: 3 semester hours

Prerequisites: Graduate standing. This course is a critical survey of theories of character development and models for character education in childhood and adolescence. The course includes empirical and conceptual study of the nature of moral character, how it develops, and how it can be fostered in schools.

ED ADM 6497 Problems: 1-10 semester hours

ED ADM 6501 Principles of School and District Finance: 3 semester hours

Prerequisites: Graduate standing. This course explores critical areas of school finance at the local, state, and federal levels. The course emphasizes the role of factors such as legislative procedures, principles of local and state support, budgeting and accounting procedures, and assessment of property.

ED ADM 6701 Leadership for Equity: 3 semester hours

Prerequisites: Graduate standing. This course explores the concepts of leadership. The course focuses on leadership in different contexts, including learning organizations, volunteer groups, crisis response, hierarchical vs. democratic, and education organizations.

ED ADM 6702 Supervision in Education Organizations: 3 semester hours

Prerequisites: Graduate standing. This course explores the transition challenges in implementation of the Missouri Learning Standards. It emphasizes effective supervision of observed instruction in multiple subject areas along with actionable methods of improvement. Also explored are the techniques used to conduct difficult conversations regarding practice.

ED ADM 6704 Data-Driven Instruction and Team Leadership: 3 semester hours

Prerequisites: ED ADM 6701. This course examines educational research and data analysis within the context of the school improvement process. Candidates will learn how to successfully create school-wide data systems that support student learning.

ED ADM 6705 School Culture I: 3 semester hours

Prerequisites: Graduate standing. This course is an exploration of candidates' personal philosophy of education and underlying belief structure. Topics include race and class issues, educational inequities, challenges to and strategies for building community support, and practice in engaging in 'courageous' conversations.

ED ADM 6708 School Culture II: Equity and Cultural Competence: 2 semester hours

Prerequisite: B- or better in ED ADM 6701. Acquisition and application of strategies for effectively supporting student social and emotional learning, increasing student voice, and engaging families, as well as systems and structures for creating equitable opportunities for students.

ED ADM 6711 Data-Driven Instruction and Team Leadership II: 3 semester hours

Prerequisites: B- or better in ED ADM 6708. Study of a cycle of data collection strategies, analysis and interpretation, all leading to actionable steps supporting teachers in the use of data as a professional tool to improve learning. Uses data from the residency site.

ED ADM 6712 Management of Organizational Systems in Schools: 3 semester hours

Prerequisites: Graduate standing. This course reviews the systems that provide for effective management of school operations. The course includes the study and analysis of safety, budgets, and staffing in schools.

ED ADM 6713 Residency II: 2 semester hours

Prerequisites: B- or better in ED ADM 6710. Continuation of ED ADM 6710 Residency I. See ED ADM 6710 for the course description. ED ADM 6713 is taken in conjunction with ED ADM 6711 and ED ADM 6712.

ED ADM 6714 K-12 School Administration: 3 semester hours

Prerequisites: Graduate standing. This course is a comprehensive, systematic study of the elementary, middle, and secondary school principalship. The course places emphasis on relating theories of learning, teaching, and organizations for effective administration of elementary and secondary schools.

ED ADM 6717 Instructional Coaching for K-12 Teacher Leaders: 3 semester hours

Prerequisites: Completion of at least three credit hours of the University of Missouri-St Louis Teacher Leader Certificate Program or consent of instructor. This course is a comprehensive and systematic study of K-12 instructional coaching. Candidates develop understanding of instructional coaching through writing, discussion, and group collaboration. Candidates learn facilitative, dialogical, and directive coaching approaches. Candidates implement the three coaching methods through a collaborative coaching relationship with a K-12 classroom teachers that includes goal setting, modeling, and observation in order to positively impact student achievement.

ED ADM 6900 Internship: 1-10 semester hours

Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. Closely supervised experience in a field setting under the direction of a graduate faculty member. An appropriate level of competence and evidence of growth in the professional role must be demonstrated by the intern. The internship will include planning, research, evaluation, and related professional activities.

ED ADM 6901 K-12 School Principal Clinical Experience: 3 semester hours

Prerequisites: Consent of the instructor. This course is a closely supervised experience in a clinical setting under the direction of a graduate faculty member. An appropriate level of competence and evidence of growth in the professional role must be demonstrated by the candidate. The clinical experience will include planning, research, evaluation, reflection, and related professional activities. It will include the required number of hours in both the candidate's major area (at least 250 hours) and minor area (at least 50 hours) for a total of 300 clinical experience hours. Major and minor areas refer to elementary or secondary level. The candidate will be required to take this course twice (two consecutive semesters) for a total of 6 hours, which encompasses 300 hours of clinical experience in both the major and minor areas.

ED ADM 6902 School Principal Clinical Experience: Supplemental: 1-3 semester hours

Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. This supplemental clinical experience course for school principals is a closely supervised experience in a clinical setting under the direction of a graduate faculty member. An appropriate level of competence and evidence of growth in the professional role must be demonstrated by the candidate. The clinical experience will include planning, research, evaluation, reflection, and related professional activities and will include the number of clinical hours required for certification.

ED ADM 6903 Superintendent Clinical Experience: 3 semester hours

Prerequisites: Consent of the instructor. This clinical experience course for superintendents is a closely supervised experience in a clinical setting under the direction of a graduate faculty member. An appropriate level of competence and evidence of growth in the professional role must be demonstrated by the candidate. The clinical experience includes planning, research, evaluation, reflection, and related professional activities and includes the number of clinical hours required for certification.

ED ADM 6904 Special Education Director Field Experience: 3 semester hours

Prerequisites: Completion of 15 credit hours in either the MEd or EdS in Education Administration programs or consent of the instructor. Closely supervised experience in a field setting under the direction of a graduate faculty member. An appropriate level of competence and evidence of growth in the professional role must be demonstrated by the intern. The internship will include planning, research, evaluation, and related professional activities.

ED ADM 6905 Private School Leadership Field Experience: 3 semester hours