What You Will Learn
Our Curriculum:
- Educational Leadership
- Teaching, Learning, and Leadership
- School Counseling and Leadership
- Educational Specialist
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.