Student Learning Objectives
Our Curriculum:
MASTER OF EDUCATION,
EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP
The objective of the ATU Educational Leadership program is to develop School Leaders
who understand and demonstrate the capacity to promote the success and well-being
of each student and adult by applying the knowledge, skills, and commitments necessary
to:
- Standard One: Collaboratively lead, design, and implement a school mission, vision,
and process for continuous improvement that reflects a core set of values and priorities
that include data use, technology, equity, diversity, digital citizenship, and community.
(NELP 1.0)
- Standard Two: Understand and demonstrate the capacity to advocate for ethical decisions
and cultivate and enact professional norms. (NELP 2.0)
- Standard Three: Develop and maintain a supportive, equitable, culturally responsive,
and inclusive school culture. (NELP 3.0)
- Standard Four: Evaluate, develop, and implement coherent systems of curriculum, instruction,
data systems, supports, and assessment. (NELP 4.0)
- Standard Five: Engage families, community, and school personnel to strengthen student
learning, support school improvement, and advocate for the needs of their school and
community. (NELP 5.0)
- Standard Six: Improve management, communication, technology, school-level governance,
and operation systems to develop and improve data-informed and equitable school resource
plans and to apply laws, policies, and regulations. (NELP 6.0)
- Standard Seven: Build the school’s professional capacity, engage staff in the development
of a collaborative professional culture, and improve systems of staff supervision,
evaluation, support, and professional learning. (NELP 7.0)
- Standard Eight: Successfully complete an internship that provides coherent, authentic,
and sustained opportunities to synthesize and apply the knowledge and skills identified
in NELP standards 1–7. (NELP 8.0)
MASTER OF EDUCATION,
TEACHING, LEARNING, & LEADERSHIP
- An educational leader promotes the success of every student by facilitating the development,
articulation, implementation, and stewardship of a vision of learning that is shared
and supported by all stakeholders.
- An education leader promotes the success of every student by advocating, nurturing,
and sustaining a school culture and instructional program conducive to student learning
and staff professional growth.
- An education leader promotes the success of every student by ensuring management of
the organization, operation, and resources for a safe, efficient, and effective learning
environment.
- An education leader promotes the success of every student by collaborating with faculty
and community members, responding to diverse community interests and needs, mobilizing
community resources, and communicating.
MASTER OF EDUCATION,
SCHOOL COUNSELING & LEADERSHIP
- Standard One: The school counselor understands the central concepts, tools of inquiry,
and structures of the discipline, and can create experiences that support the learning
process for students.
- Standard Two: The school counselor plans a school counseling program that is comprehensive
in scope and developmental in nature.
- Standard Three: The school counselor plans counseling services that facilitate student
development in academic, career, and personal/social domains.
- Standard Four: The school counselor exhibits human relations skills which support
the development of human potential.
- Standard Five: The school counselor works collaboratively with school colleagues,
parents/guardians, and the community to support students' learning and well-being.
