Courses

• SED AP 720: Performance-Based Educational Leadership
  Preparation for aspiring principals and professional development for experienced principals. How a school administrator organizes and leads to achieve high student performance. Analysis and discussion of cases and readings in school reform literature. 4cr, 2nd sem.
• SED AP 750: Performance Appraisal and Supervision
  Students examine alternative perspectives on the evaluation and supervision of educational personnel, including legal, philosophical, and empirical perspectives. Emphasis in supervision is on effective patterns of interpersonal communication between subordinate and supervisory personnel. 4cr, 2nd sem.
• SED AP 751: Conflict Resolution
  Focuses on both conceptual and practical aspects of conflict resolution within an educational institution. Addresses the general characteristics, advantages, and disadvantages of negotiation, ombudsman, mediation, and arbitration processes as they apply to conflicts that arise in an educational setting; factors influencing the outcome of a conflict resolution effort; ethical considerations in using conflict resolution processes; and existing programs for training educational administrators, teachers, and students in conflict resolution techniques.
• SED AP 752: Educational Politics: Local and State
  Political and policymaking processes at the state and local levels, illustrated by current issues and developments, including the role of interest groups, state standards and regulations, and initiatives in schools and higher education.
• SED AP 753: Educational Policy
  State and national policies affecting k-12 education in the United States. Debates about common state standards, testing, school finance, language of instruction, school autonomy, teacher quality, and the rights of parents. 4cr, 1st sem.
• SED AP 754: Educational Equity and the Law
  Student and teacher rights and equal opportunity in K-12 education. 2cr, 1st sem.
• SED AP 755: Legal Issues in Higher Education
  Using the case method, this course considers issues that arise in the administration of institutions of higher education and the ethical and legal principles applicable to their resolution. 4cr, 1st sem.
• SED AP 757: School Labor Relations and Personnel Management
  Focus on policies and procedures affecting personnel management in the schools. Topics include: collective bargaining; managing reduction in force; grievance processing; legal liability of employees and officials; and equality considerations in recruitment, promotion, and affirmative action. 2cr, 1st sem.
• SED AP 758: School Management
  Focuses on the economics, politics, and administration of school finance from both theoretical and practical perspectives. Emphasis is placed on the planning, policy, and procedural aspects of school funding, resource allocation, and school plant management. 4cr, 1st sem.
• SED AP 760: Group Problem Solving
  Emphasizes collaborative models for clarifying and solving problems. Simulations, case studies, and field projects are used as sources of information. The aim is to help students diagnose and solve educational organization problems they have identified. 4cr, 2nd sem.
• SED AP 761: Organizational Analysis
  Students define and document organizational problems, identify positive and negative stakeholders, analyze possible problem causes using a range of theoretical frameworks, and examine alternative strategies for resolving or ameliorating the problem. Students should come to the first class with a specific organizational problem in mind and with sufficient knowledge of the organization to perform thorough and detailed analyses. Advanced copies of the syllabus are generally available several weeks in advance. 4cr, 2nd sem.
• SED AP 763: Community Analysis
  Social, political, and economic forces in international settings and their implications for the development of educational and other human service agencies. Emphasizes conceptual frameworks, methodological tools, and analytic skills for policy and planning. 4cr, 2nd sem, Summer Term.
• SED AP 764: Policy Institute
  
• SED AP 771: Advanced Policy Seminar
  Students use appropriate theories and methods to examine critically important policy issues in public and private education and in corporate training and development. Includes preparation for departmental comprehensive examination. 4cr, 1st sem.
• SED AP 801: Internship
  Part-time unpaid assignment in approved educational or community agency. 4cr.
• SED AP 802: Practicum/Apprenticeship/Internship: Principals (Pre-K-6)
  Open only to matriculated graduate students who have completed prerequisites. Supervised field placement to demonstrate competencies in the principal's role. The internship requires 300 hours of supervised field placement. Open only to candidates for Massachusetts licensure as principals who have passed the School of Education Literacy Test. 4cr, either sem.
• SED AP 803: Practicum/Apprenticeship/Internship: Principals (5-8)
  Open only to matriculated graduate students who have completed prerequisites. Supervised field placement to demonstrate competencies in the principal's role. The internship requires 300 hours of supervised field placement. Open only to candidates for Massachusetts licensure as principals who have passed the School of Education Literacy Test. 4cr, either sem.
• SED AP 804: Practicum/Apprenticeship/Internship: Principals (9-12)
  Open only to matriculated graduate students who have completed prerequisites. Supervised field placement to demonstrate competencies in the principal's role. The internship requires 300 hours of supervised field placement. Open only to candidates for Massachusetts licensure as principals who have passed the School of Education Literacy Test. 4cr, either sem.
• SED AP 805: Practicum/Apprenticeship/Internship: Superintendent/Assistant Superintendent
  Open only to matriculated graduate students who have completed prerequisites. Supervised field placement to demonstrate competencies in the superintendent/assistant superintendent role. Required of and open only to candidates for Massachusetts licensure as superintendents/assistant superintendents who have passed the School of Education Literacy Test. 4cr, 1st sem.
• SED AP 900: Independent Study
  Outline of proposed study must be submitted in advance of registration on a form obtained from the department office. Variable cr.

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