Minors: Charter School Education Leadership

The minor in Charter School Education Leadership will meet the needs of leaders and corporations who are pursuing an emerging alternative to traditional public education, such as Imagine and the Edison Schools, and the D.C. Charter School Association.

EDD 8761: Charter Schools and Democracy: Parental Choice
This course is designed to provide educational leaders in charter schools an understanding of the history of public and independent education in the United States: specifically pertaining to parental choice.  Charter schools grew out of the demand for better choices for families regardless of income. Quality charter schools have become a lightning rod for school choice proponents and opponents, but these schools have also become a permanent part of the educational landscape.

EDD 8760: Governance in Charter Schools
This course is designed to provide educational leaders in charter schools an understanding with the knowledge and skills necessary to work effectively with a charter school board, local school board and other groups that are critical to the success of a school district as well as the legal framework of charter school education at the national, state, and local levels. A study of the impact of, and relationship between, constitutional law, statutory law, administrative law, and judicial law that influence the operation of quality charter schools will be a major focus of the course.

EDD 8753: Facility Operations Management
This course presents a comprehensive view of lifelong learning and its critical implications for learners and leaders in the field of adult and continuing education. The course addresses current contexts, emerging challenges, and evolving opportunities in the field of adult and continuing education from a practitioner-oriented perspective. Course participants will examine a variety of adult learning contexts including community-based programs, prison education, and innovative higher education applications. In addition, participants will analyze emerging challenges including demographic, economic, political, ethical, and socio-cultural changes influencing the practice of adult education.

EDD 8754: Maintenance and Operation of Ancillary Services in School Systems
This course is designed to introduce the student to several support areas of education: technology, risk management, food service, transportation, security and human resources.  The scope of responsibilities of these areas will be discussed along with the potential fiscal impact on the educational program.  Funding sources, expenditures, and recent trends will be examined and discussed.

EDD 8112: Assessment Centered Curriculum Design
This practical course departs from traditional curricular design by focusing on purposeful task analysis: Given a task to be accomplished, how do we get there? Professionals will be challenged to design curriculum only after operationalizing their goals or standards in terms of assessment evidence. It begins with the question: What would we accept as evidence that students have attained the desired understandings and proficiencies? - before proceeding to plan teaching and learning experiences. This course moves very quickly from the theoretical into the preparation of a field study product.