EDEL 8882 Educational Leadership Residency

This course is designed to provide a supervised residency that offers significant opportunities for the leadership candidate to synthesize and apply the knowledge and develop and practice the skills necessary to lead a school and/or district. The candidate will perform substantial, sustained, standards-based work in real settings, planned and guided cooperatively by Piedmont faculty supervisors and school district personnel.

Credits

1

Student Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, the candidate will be able to:

1. Work with the community to ensure that schools reflect community needs.
2. Understand the connection between budget and resources
3. Acquire and manage material and financial assets for school programs, allocating resources according to district or school priorities
4. Develop an efficient budget planning process that is driven by district and school priorities and involves staff and community
5. Implement strategic human resources, finance, and facility planning at the local school level within the context of system-wide planning. 
6. Utilize appropriate models for long-range and short-range planning for finance, facility and personnel needs. 
7. Develop and implement fair and defensible processes for job application, screening of applicants, interviewing selected candidates, conducting reference checks, and employment of qualified applicants. 
8. Describe and plan an effective induction program for new employees. 
9. Demonstrate the ability to design plans for assisting marginal employees and maintaining proper documentation of remediation efforts. 
10. Demonstrate an understanding of legal and ethical requirements related to human resource and facility management functions. 
11. Demonstrate understanding of the role of diversity in planning, implementing, and evaluating school-level human resource functions. 
12. Identify and analyze the major sources of school fiscal and non-fiscal resources.