Program Outcomes

As a result of completing the Ed.D. in Education Leadership program, graduates will be able to:

• Demonstrate competence in designing, conducting, and communicating research that is designed to address complex problems of practice in the SEAL context.
• Apply SEAL-related leadership and management principles in school communities from a whole-child perspective.
• Recommend improvements in practice, policy and law at the local, state and federal levels that would advance social, emotional and academic learning for all students.
• Demonstrate knowledge of current pedagogical and leadership principles related to SEAL, the ability to translate research to practice, and evidence of advocacy for the application of SEAL practices in school, district or organizational settings.
• Demonstrate skills for designing, analyzing and implementing relevant research to affect SEAL-related practice, trauma-sensitive schools, advance social justice, and enact effective SEAL-related change.
• Demonstrate professional oral and written communication skills.
• Demonstrate moral and ethical leadership principles in relationship to SEAL.