The schedule below outlines the topics we will be covering in this course, along with the associated assignments.

identifies readings that are available on E-Reserves through the library, and * readings are Harvard Business Review Articles that are available via Business Premier Database.

NOTE: Please be aware of the floating CITI/SARI module in this course. Only the CITI certificate and the first SARI discussion have a specific due date. SARI discussions 02–05 may be completed at your own pace but must be completed by the last day of the course.

Lesson 01: Introduction to Educational Leadership

Readings	Course Syllabus Textbook 1, Chapter 1: The School as a Social System, pp. 1–35 Lesson 01 Commentary
Activities	Task 1.a. Class Introduction Task 1.b. Academic Integrity Form Task 1.c. Student Information Form Task 1.d. Active Interviews: Creating Connections (eBase Group) Task 1.e. Summary of Active Interview Conversations Task 1.f. Professional Learning Community (PLC) Discussion: Theory and Systems

Lesson 02: Leadership Part I

Readings	Textbook 1, Chapter 3: Structure in schools, pp. 94–134 Lesson 02 Commentary
Videos	Fullan, M. “Motion leadership: The skinny.” YouTube, 3:16
Activities	Venn Diagram on Effective and Ineffective Leadership Task 2.a. PLC Discussion: Leadership and School Structure Dichotomies Task 2.b. Commentary Assignment: Local State, National, or International Leadership Article Task 2.c. Lesson Reflections Paper: “Anti-Racist Leadership” Review CITI/SARI module

Lesson 03: Leadership Part II

Readings	Goffee, R., and Jones, G. (2005). Managing authenticity. Harvard Business Review, 83(12), 86–94. * Textbook 1, Chapter 13: Leadership in schools, pp. 426–467 Day, G., and Shoemaker, P. (2008). Are you a vigilant leader? Textbook 1: A case for leadership Facebook dilemma, pp. 462–463 Lesson 03 Commentary
Activities	Task 3.a. PLC Discussion: School Leadership and Racial Equity Policy Task 3.b. Lesson Reflections Paper: Leadership Qualities and Styles

Lesson 04: Decision Making in Schools

Readings	Textbook 1, Chapter 10: Decision making in schools, pp. 329–351 Day, G. & Shoemaker, P. (2008). Are you a vigilant leader? Textbook 1: A Case for Leadership. The teacher's council, pp. 352–355 Martin, A., Yoon, I.H., & Fluckiger, J.J. (2016). Decision-making in school racial conflict: Challenges of leadership for social justice. Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 19(2), 12–20. Lesson 04 Commentary
Videos	TED Talk: Are we in charge of our own decisions? by Dan Arierly
Activities	Task 4.a. PLC Discussion: Hoy and Miskel’s Leadership Case Study on Teachers Council Task 4.b. PLC Discussion - Martin et al. Task 4.c. Commentary Assignment: Dan Arierly's TED Talk CITI/SARI Certificate (submit by the end lesson 04) SARI Discussion 01 (to be completed by the end of lesson 04)

Lesson 05: Decision Making Part II—Shared Decision Making and Distributed Leadership in Schools

Readings

Textbook 1, Chapter 11: Shared decision making: Empowering teachers, pp. 359–385 Textbook 1, Chapter 13: Leadership in schools, pp. 445–448 David, J. L., (Jan. 1996). Educational leadership, The Who, What, and Why of Site-Based Management, 53(4), pp. 4–9 Spillane, J. (Winter 2005). Distributed leadership. The Educational Forum, 69, pp. 143–150 Natsiopoulou, E. & Giouroukakis, V. (April 2010). When teachers run the school. Education Leadership, 67(7). Beard, K.S. (2017). Promises kept or opportunities lost: A wicked problem in educational leadership. Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 20(3), 86–103. Lesson 05 Commentary

Activities

Task 5.a. PLC Discussion: Promises Kept or Opportunities Lost Case Study Task 5.b. Commentary Activity: School-Based Shared Decision Making (eBase Group) Task 5.c. Lesson Reflections Paper: Decentralized School Governance Models (SBM and Distributed Leadership) SARI Discussions

Lesson 06: Power and Politics

Readings	Saltman, K. (2014). The Politics of education: A critical introduction. Paradigm Publishers, Introduction, pp. xiii–xxix Textbook 1, Chapter 7 Power and politics in schools, pp. 229–263 Thomas, P. L. (April 26, 2013). Politics and education don’t mix, The Atlantic. pp. 1–6 Sprier S., Fontaine, M. & Malloy, R. (June 2006). Leadership run amok. Harvard Business Review, 107–111. * Heisler, W., & Hanlin, L. (2017). Nepotism and the Jackson County School Board. Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 20(2), 163–176. Lesson 06 Commentary
Videos	The Principal Story, a critically-acclaimed 2009 documentary of principal leadership and the challenges facing America's public schools; Reflection: The Principal Story
Activities	Task 6.a. Environmental Scan on Student Selected Issue Form Task 6.b. PLC Discussion: Nepotism and the Jackson County School Board Task 6.c. Commentary Activity: The Politics of Teaching and Learning (eBase Group) Task 6.d. Lesson Reflections Paper Submit first half of Reflections Logs SARI Discussions

Lesson 07: The Technical Core: Teaching and Learning

Readings	Textbook 1, Chapter 2: The technical core: Teaching and learning, p. 42 Moe, T., Chubb, J., (2009). Chapter 4 Technology on All Fronts. In Liberating learning: Technology, politics, and the future of American education. Center of the American Experiment, Jossey-Bass, 94–98. Boyd & Boyd (2020), Leadership Behaviors of Effective Student Athletic Coaches: A Case Study. Journal of Qualitative and Ethnographic Research, 15, 1–6. Lesson 07 Commentary
Videos	TEDxManhattanBeach: The Power of Belief—Mindset and Success. Eduardo Briceno.
Activities	Experiences and Observations Continuum Task 7.a. PLC Discussion: Behavioral, Cognitive, and Constructivist Learning Perspectives Task 7.b. PLC Discussion: Athletic Leadership Case Study Task 7.c. Commentary Assignment: Teaching Applications of the Learning Perspective and Dweck's Mindset Research Task 7.d. Summary Report / Signature Assessment SARI Discussions

Lesson 08: Organizational Cultures

Readings

Textbook 1, Chapter 5: Organizational culture of schools, p. 178 Mize, N.G. (2016). A measure of toxicity: The challenge of employee fit in organizational change. Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 19(3), 27–37. Textbook 1: A Case for Leadership: Ambivalence at East High School Griffin, S. (2014). New job, new hopes, new linguistic preferences: Infusing AI into the entry process (Story #21), In Exceeding expectations: An anthology of appreciative inquiry stories from around the world. Taos, NM: A Taos Institute Publication Jentz, B. (September 2009). First time in a position of authority. Phi Delta Kappan, 91(01), 56–60. DuFour, R. (Fall 2004). Culture shift doesn't occur overnight—or without conflict. National Staff Development Council, 25(4), 63–64. Lesson 08 Commentary

Activities

Task 8.a. PLC Discussion: Mize and Hoy & Miskel Case Studies Task 8.b. Commentary Activity: Looking at Culture (eBase Group) Task 8.c. Summary Report / Signature Assessment SARI Discussions

Lesson 09: Cultural Politics and Resistance

Readings	Saltman, K. (2014). The politics of education (Chapter 1). The cultural politics of education, 1–12 Levy, R.A., Hudson, S.S., Waters, C.N., & Mansfield, K.C. (2017). What’s in a name? The confluence of Confederate symbolism and the disparate experiences of African American students in a Central Virginia high school. Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 20(2), 105–130. Textbook 1, Chapter 4: Individuals in schools, pp. 138–172 Bolman, L., & Deal, T (2010). Chapter 5: The tracking wars: School politics at work (Chapter 5). Reframing the path to school leadership: A guide for teachers and principals (41–56). 2nd Ed. Thousand Oaks, California: Corwin. Wagner, T., Kegan, R. (2006). Chapter 2: Creating a vision of success. In Change leadership: A practical guide to transforming schools (23–26). Jossey-Bass Knight, J. (March 2009). What can we do about teacher resistance? Phi Delta Kappan, 508–513 Evans, R. (1996). Chapter 3: The culture of resistance. In The human side of school change (40–51). Jossey Bass Lesson 09 Commentary
Videos	Barker, J. A. The New Business of Paradigms, Second Edition.
Activities	Task 9.a. PLC Discussion: Case Study: “What's in a Name” Task 9.b. Commentary Assignment: Cultural Politics and Resistance Task 9.c. Lesson Reflections Paper: You, the Common Core Curriculum, and Motivation Task 9.d. Summary Report / Signature Assessment SARI Discussions

Lesson 10: Environment and Accountability

Readings	Textbook 1, Chapter 8: External environments and accountability in schools, p. 268–296 Houston, P. Developmental Studies Center (DSC) Blog, January 27, 2015 Journey to Middle Earth Textbook 2, Chapters 1–6 (pp. 1–98). Lesson 10 Commentary
Video	All Means Me Too 180 Days: Hartsville
Activities	Where Do You Stand? Continuum Task 10.a. Discussion: Where Do You Stand? Task 10.b. PLC Discussion: All Means Me Too (eBase Group) Task 10.c. Commentary Activity: External Environments and Accountability (eBase Group) Task 10.d. Lesson Reflections Paper: Leadership and Culture Task 10.e. Summary Report / Signature Assessment SARI Discussions

Lesson 11: School Effectiveness and School Improvement

Readings

Textbook 1, Chapter 9: School effectiveness, pp. 299–324 Mette, I.M., & Riegel, L. (2018). Supervision, systems thinking, and the impact of American school reform efforts on instructional leadership. Journal of Cases in Instructional Leadership, 21(4), 34–51. Hattie, J. (October 2003). Teachers make a difference: What is the research evidence? University of Auckland, Australian Council for Educational Research Textbook 2, Chapters 7–10 (pp. 99–176). Lesson 11 Commentary

Activities

Task 11.a. PLC Discussion: Supervision, Educational Inequities, and the Impact on American School Reform Task 11.b. Commentary Assignment: School Effectiveness Task 11.c. Lesson Reflections Paper: Leaders as Key to School Improvement Task 11.d. Summary Report / Signature Assessment SARI Discussions

Lesson 12: School Communication and Leadership Revisited

Readings

Griffin, S. (2014). New job, new hopes, new linguistic preferences: Infusing AI into the entry process (Story #21). In Exceeding expectations: An anthology of appreciative inquiry stories from around the world. Taos, NM: A Taos Institute Publication Dorsch et al. (2019), “Parent Education in Youth Sport: A Community Case Study of Parents, Coaches, and Administrators.” Textbook 1, Chapter 12: Communication, 388–420 Lesson 12 Commentary

Activities

Task 12.a. PLC Discussion: Effective vs. Ineffective Communication Task 12.b. Lesson Reflections Paper: Communication Principles and Strategies Submit second half of Reflections Logs Task 12.c. Summary Report / Signature Assessment SARI Discussions

Lesson 13: Signature Assessment: Leadership Understandings

Readings	Three professional articles related to your leadership issue Lesson 13 Commentary
Videos	Three presentations by course participants
Activities	Complete SRTE: Course evaluation Task 13.a. Written Summary Report on Self-Selected Leadership Issue—Due Monday Task 13.b. Modified Consultancy Protocol—Provide feedback to each of three colleagues—Initial post due Monday Task 13.c. Group PLC Discussion: Consultancy Protocol—Initial post due Monday Complete ALL SARI Discussions by end of course