Education Leadership (EDLD)

EDLD 1200:   Intro. to Leadership Studies  
Leadership and Counselor Ed  
Seminar to broaden the student's recognition of his or her ability to affect the community. Emphasis on personal identity, the development of leadership skills, and the development of confidence in self and in relationships.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
EDLD 2200:   Foundations of Ldrshp. Studies  
Leadership and Counselor Ed  
Broaden the student's understanding of leadership by an in-depth study of the concept and practice of leadership as a way to maximize the student's ability to affect the community.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture, Lecture/Lab  
EDLD 3200:   The Univ. of MS Service Organ  
Leadership and Counselor Ed  
Seminar in service learning and assignment as a University of Mississippi student leader. Prerequisite requirements for this course may also be satisfied by consent of instructor.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
(EDLD 1200 and EDLD 2200) and 24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
EDLD 4200:   Exercising Ldrshp.: Mobilizing  
Leadership and Counselor Ed  
Advanced study of the concepts of leadership and authority especially seen as distinguishable characteristics. Mobilization of group action is the framework for this study. Prerequisite requirements for this course may also be satisfied by consent of instructor.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
(EDLD 1200 and EDLD 2200) and 24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
EDLD 5000:   Perspectives on Ed.al Admin  
Leadership and Counselor Ed  
Organization and structure of American education at the national, state, and local levels.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
EDLD 5010:   The Effective Principal  
Leadership and Counselor Ed  
The principal as an instructional leader and unit manager.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
EDLD 5040:   Instructional Improvement  
Leadership and Counselor Ed  
Promoting teacher improvement through clinical supervision and awareness of the elements of effective teaching.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
EDLD 5050:   School Law Seminar  
Leadership and Counselor Ed  
Instruction in and discussion of current legal problems confronting school administrators.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
EDLD 5500:   Perspectives on Ed.al Admin  
Leadership and Counselor Ed  
Organization and structure of American education at the national, state, and local levels.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
EDLD 5510:   The Effective Principal  
Leadership and Counselor Ed  
The principal as an instructional leader and unit manager.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
EDLD 5540:   Instructional Improvement  
Leadership and Counselor Ed  
Promoting teacher improvement through clinical supervision and awareness of the elements of effective teaching.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
EDLD 5550:   School Law Seminar  
Leadership and Counselor Ed  
Instruction in and discussion of current legal problems confronting school administrators.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
EDLD 6100:   Mission, Vision, & Core Val.s  
Leadership and Counselor Ed  
Understand and demonstrate the leadership capability to promote the success and well-being of school stakeholders by applying the knowledge, skills, and commitments necessary for shared mission and vision, core values, and support systems, and the school improvement process.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
EDLD 6110:   Eth. & Prof. Norms for Ed. Ldr  
Leadership and Counselor Ed  
This course supports students' development of an understanding of and capability to demonstrate and enact the professional norms of integrity, fairness, transparency, trust, collaboration, perseverance, learning, and continuous improvement in their actions, decision making and relationships with others.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
EDLD 6120:   Equity and Cultural Leadership  
Leadership and Counselor Ed  
Examines how educational leaders achieve equity of educational opportunity and culturally responsive practices to promote academic success and well-being of students.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
EDLD 6130:   Instructional Leadership  
Leadership and Counselor Ed  
Candidates in this course will develop understanding and demonstrate the capability to promote the success and well-being of each student, teacher, and leader by applying knowledge, skills, and commitments necessary for a learning system, instructional practice, an assessment system, and learning supports.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
EDLD 6140:   Community and External Ldrshp.  
Leadership and Counselor Ed  
This course supports development of a comprehensive understanding of effective cultural leadership in regards to communication and engagement between students, teachers, and other stakeholders in education. This course also encourages an examination of the role and relationships between school, board, and community cultures and stakeholders.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
EDLD 6150:   Human Resources Leadership  
Leadership and Counselor Ed  
This course supports development of a comprehensive understanding of effective building level educational leadership to promote the success and well-being of each student, teacher, and leader by applying the knowledge, skills, and commitments necessary for human resource development, facilitating a professional organizational culture, improving the work environment, and evaluating and supervising personnel.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
EDLD 6160:   Data-informed Leadership  
Leadership and Counselor Ed  
The leadership knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to improve teaching and learning by leading data-based decision making. This includes research methods, using both quantitative and qualitative data, assessments of teachers and students, and data analysis.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
EDLD 6170:   School Law and Leadership  
Leadership and Counselor Ed  
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the area of education law to better equip them as instructional leaders within their schools. Candidates will read the seminal court cases impacting education, and understand the basic applications of those cases to practice and policy. Candidates will also develop the ability to work within established guidelines such as school board policies, state statutes, and federal laws.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
EDLD 6180:   Oper. and Mgmt. of Ldrshp.  
Leadership and Counselor Ed  
This course supports development of a comprehensive understanding and demonstrations of the capability to develop, monitor, and evaluate school management and operation systems to address and support each student's learning needs.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
EDLD 6190:   School Turnaround  
Leadership and Counselor Ed  
This course provides leadership knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to improve teaching and learning by driving and sustaining change in a collegial environment. The goals of this course center around preparing the educational leader to be able to turn around the direction of schools in areas identified in needs assessments. Following this course, leaders will have practical tools to use that would create positive academic and social change in schools to facilitate student learning.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
EDLD 6310:   Facility Planning and Mgmt.  
Leadership and Counselor Ed  
Determining community and district facility needs; planning new and renovated buildings; and maintenance and operation of facilities.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
EDLD 6410:   Law and Ethics of Education  
Leadership and Counselor Ed  
Ethical and legal principles for school leadership including state and federal decisions affecting public and private education; emphasis on constitutional considerations.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
EDLD 6420:   Managing Operations for Lrng.  
Leadership and Counselor Ed  
The management knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to improve teaching and learning by effectively and efficiently organizing resources, processes, and systems.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
EDLD 6430:   Human Resource Administration  
Leadership and Counselor Ed  
Selection, preparation, certification; salaries; salary schedules, retirement, tenure, leaves of absence; professional organizations, ethics; participation in policy formulation.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
EDLD 6511:   Advanced Individual Study  
Leadership and Counselor Ed  
Development of special projects under supervision.  
1 - 6 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Independent Study  
EDLD 6512:   Advanced Individual Study  
Leadership and Counselor Ed  
Development of special projects under supervision.  
1 - 6 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Independent Study  
EDLD 6560:   Administrative Internship  
Leadership and Counselor Ed  
University-supervised field experiences under the direction of an approved educational administrator. Designed to promote appropriate application of academic course work and experiences. Z grade  
1 - 6 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Internship  
Course Fees:
$65.00
  
EDLD 6710:   Leading Quality Instruction  
Leadership and Counselor Ed  
Leadership theories, skills, and dispositions necessary to improve teaching and learning processess at the individual teacher or classroom level.  
6 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
EDLD 6720:   Common Ground: Sch. & Cmnty.  
Leadership and Counselor Ed  
Emerging issues and trends in school administration; community conditions and dynamics, community resources, community relations, models for school-community partnerships.  
6 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
EDLD 6730:   Organization and Management  
Leadership and Counselor Ed  
School management and models of organizations; organizational development, school and district-level procedures, school safety and security, fiscal operation, school facilities, legal issues, technological support.  
6 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
EDLD 6740:   Developing Quality Teaching  
Leadership and Counselor Ed  
The leadership knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to improve teaching and learning at the organizational level, by insuring that instructional personnel have what they need (material, organizational, operational, cultural) to maximize instructional performance.  
6 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
EDLD 6750:   Pol, Int, Eth, Leg, Pol. Iss.  
Leadership and Counselor Ed  
Public education in a democratic society; political, cultural and economic systems; diversity, equity and ethical issues.  
6 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
EDLD 6760:   Ldng. Change in Ed.al Org.  
Leadership and Counselor Ed  
The leadership knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to improve teaching and learning by driving and sustaining organizational change in an collegial environment.  
6 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
EDLD 6920:   Proposal Wrtg/Grants  
Leadership and Counselor Ed  
An examination of the elements that comprise a proposal, culminating in practice in proposal preparation. Integrated into the proposal writing process will be exploration into the many aspects of grantsmanship.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
EDLD 6997A:   Thesis  
Leadership and Counselor Ed  
No grade  
1 - 12 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Thesis  
EDLD 6999A:   Spec. Topics in Ed.al Ldrshp.  
Leadership and Counselor Ed  
A graduate seminar course presented in a topical format to address areas of interest to master's, specialist, and doctoral students in educational leadership. May be repeated for credit.  
3 - 6 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
EDLD 7000:   Ldrshp. & Org Thry for Pract.  
Leadership and Counselor Ed  
Presentation of theories and processes in administrative positions in educational institutions; examination of the research.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
EDLD 7210:   District Operations and Mgmt.  
Leadership and Counselor Ed  
Development of district procedures and school board policies for daily operation and safety of schools, data-based decision making for management and operation of the district.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
EDLD 7230:   School Finance and Facilities  
Leadership and Counselor Ed  
Development and management of school and district budgets; strategic planning for bond development for capital projects; and principles of financial support at local, state, and federal levels.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
EDLD 7300:   Multidisc. POV on Ldrshp.  
Leadership and Counselor Ed  
A seminar drawing from a variety of disciplines to broaden doctoral students' behavioral and social-scientific and humanistic backgrounds as these can enrich leadership practices.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
EDLD 7310:   Ed. Policy and Cmnty. Rel  
Leadership and Counselor Ed  
Development of a comprehensive understanding of policy development, analyses, and implementation in education at the local, state, and federal level. Examination of the role and relationships between school, board, and community cultures and stakeholders  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
EDLD 7410:   Advanced Ed.al Law and Ethics  
Leadership and Counselor Ed  
Ethical and legal principles for advanced practice in educational leadership. Development and management of systems of checks and balances of instructional, fiscal, personnel for provision of special programs to meet the needs of all students at the district level.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
EDLD 7500:   Organizational Improvement  
Leadership and Counselor Ed  
A study of organizational, cultural, and strategic elements in improving the performance of educational organizations.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
EDLD 7560:   Internship in Ed.al Admin.  
Leadership and Counselor Ed  
Service in an administrative position under supervision. Z grade  
3 - 6 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Internship  
Course Fees:
$65.00
  
EDLD 7670:   Field Study  
Leadership and Counselor Ed  
Original study of an actual administrative problem in a school; report of thesis proportions and style. Z grade  
3 - 6 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Independent Study  
EDLD 7740:   App. Curr. Instr. & Account  
Leadership and Counselor Ed  
Development at the district level of consistent curriculum, instructional, and accountability programs across schools.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
EDLD 7940:   Human Resource Development  
Leadership and Counselor Ed  
Development of human resources in educational organizations through planning, recruiting, hiring, inducting, assessing, and professional development of instructional and non-instructional personnel.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
EDLD 7998A:   Dissertation  
Leadership and Counselor Ed  
Z grade  
1 - 18 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Dissertation  
EDLD 7998B:   Graded Dissertation  
Leadership and Counselor Ed  
This course provides a graded alternative to Edld 797 (nongraded) dissertation hours. The graded alternative is for use when pedagogically appropriate such as in cohort doctoral programs where dissertation hours may involve structured class sessions with students and instructors working together.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Dissertation