Course Code
EDLS6506
The course aims to equip candidates with the leadership knowledge, skills and sensitivities needed to effectively guide schools toward sustained literacy improvement and enhanced academic performance on the part of students served. Candidate training will focus on four main areas:
- Laying the foundation for a literacy- focused school culture: Candidates learn procedures for articulating vision and mission statements, and ultimately for changing the culture of the school by conditioning practitioner beliefs, values and motivation in ways that will promote effective literacy teaching and learning.
- Implementing a team approach to the scrutiny of student performance data in efforts to devise a data-driven school-wide literacy improvement plan that details the areas in which academic improvement should take place and initiatives that can best accomplish this task.
- Designing and implementing coherent school-wide professional development and clinical supervision initiatives that are driven by data on gaps in student learning as well as those in teacher knowledge and expertise.
- Providing instructional scaffolds to guide colleagues toward instructional improvement, and students toward literacy success and overall academic excellence.
