STONY BROOK/SCCSA/SCOPE NEW COHORT THREE - EDL 515 SCHOOL DISTRICT LEADERSHIP

EDL 515 School District Leadership

This course is an examination of theories and practices related to school district administration, supervision and evaluation. The course will teach you how to effectively align and focus systems of curriculum, instruction, and assessment within and across grade levels to promote student academic success, love of learning, the identities and habits of learners, and healthy sense of self. This will be accomplished by learning how to effectively promote adult-student, student-peer, and school-community relationships that value and support academic learning and positive social and emotional development. This will be followed by learning how to effectively foster continuous improvement of individual and collective instructional capacity to achieve outcomes envisioned for each student. This will be supported by learning how to engage in regular and open two-way communication with families and the community about the school, students, needs, problems, and accomplishments. Finally the course will explore how to effectively engage others in an ongoing process of evidence-based inquiry, learning, strategic goal setting, planning, implementation, and evaluation for continuous school and classroom improvement, while acting with cultural competence and responsiveness in their interactions, decision making, and practice.

Dates: June 17, 2026 to July 29, 2026 with virtual Zoom meetings on Wednesdays, 5:00 - 7:00 PM. The Professor will be Dr. Donald Murphy - donald.murphy@stonybrook.edu