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Education-Leadership, Foundations, and Policy

EDLF 7805 Cultivating Professional Capacity
Fall 2026

Through research based practices and theoretical framing, students learn to build schools' professional capacity through recruitment, interviewing, induction, professional development, evaluation, and compensation. The process is considered in school and …

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Difficulty
3.88
GPA
EDLF 7806 Family and Community Engagement
Fall 2026

This course covers the basic principles of engaging families and the community in the life of a school, a fundamental responsibility of school leaders. Topics include communication with the school …

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Difficulty
3.89
GPA
EDLF 7807 Leadership Experiences, Applications & Development
Fall 2026

This course explores the principal¿s pivotal role in organizational operations and change, focusing on how school leaders shape climate, foster internal professional accountability, and respond to the demands of external …

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Difficulty
3.82
GPA
EDLF 7808 Strategic Alignment of Planning and Resources
Fall 2026

This course explores school finance principles and challenges, emphasizing budgeting activities like planning, data collection, development, communication, implementation, and monitoring. Topics include resource allocation, accounting, business management, organizational behavior, and …

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Difficulty
3.90
GPA
EDLF 7810 Legal and Educational Policy Context
Fall 2026

This course explores laws and policies that shape U.S. public school teaching and learning environments, covering Supreme Court cases and federal legislation. The course introduces legal principles and guidelines for …

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Difficulty
3.90
GPA
EDLF 7811 Leadership for Teaching and Learning
Fall 2026

This course gives students conceptual and philosophical frameworks for leading good instruction and creating conditions for teaching and learning in schools and districts. Students reflect on their own instructional filters …

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Difficulty
3.87
GPA
EDLF 7812 Leadership for Continuous Improvement
Fall 2026

This course equips educators with tools to lead continuous improvement aimed at advancing the academic success, engagement, and belonging of all children. Grounded in improvement science, the course introduces tools …

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Difficulty
3.81
GPA
EDLF 7813 Leadership for EdTech
Fall 2026

Examines how, as a team, school leaders analyze the relationship of the integration of technologies to teachers' beliefs & practices & to local school culture, structures, & policies. Students will …

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Difficulty
3.88
GPA
EDLF 7815 Leadership for Equity of Diverse Populations
Fall 2026

Leadership for Equity of Diverse Populations seeks to support special populations in schools. It proposes that effective leadership for all special student populations involves particular knowledge and requires a strong …

Rating
Difficulty
3.99
GPA
EDLF 7993 Independent Study: Leadership and Policy Studies
Spring 2026

Under close guidance of an individual faculty member, students work on areas of particular interest that cannot be met in regularly scheduled courses. Enrollment in this course is limited to …

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Difficulty
GPA
EDLF 8010 Proseminar in Interdisciplinary Issues in Education Research & Scholarship
Fall 2026

This course introduces early-stage PhD students to education research and to academic and non-academic professional development through a speaker series, EHD faculty and alumni career panels, and guided discussions. Students …

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Difficulty
4.00
GPA
EDLF 8011 Researcher-Practitioner Partnership Experience
Fall 2025

The primary goal of this course is to provide a structure to support you in planning and designing your Research-Practitioner Partnership Experience project. We will discuss how to find and …

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Difficulty
GPA
EDLF 8012 Contemporary Issues in Education Science Seminar
Spring 2024

This course will cover a single emerging research issue on a rotating basis. Examples of topics include data visualization, program innovation, tools for open science, communication of findings to broad …

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Difficulty
GPA
EDLF 8310 Generalized Linear Models
Spring 2026

Focus is on the generalized linear model (GLM) for cases when variables have specific non-normal conditional distributions, with emphasis on common data analytic challenges that arise in real world settings. …

Rating
Difficulty
3.89
GPA
EDLF 8311 Design and Analysis of Field Experiments
Fall 2024

A rich body of literature has emerged about the design, implementation, and analysis of experiments in field settings. This course introduces students to advances in the design and analysis of …

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Difficulty
4.00
GPA
EDLF 8315 Claims to Evidence: Tools for Decision-Facing Quantitative Analysis
Fall 2026

Graduate seminar on quantitative reasoning for education and youth: what can we responsibly claim from evidence, and what should we not? Students learn causal and quasi-experimental designs (RCTs, RD, DiD/event …

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Difficulty
3.59
GPA
EDLF 8318 Applied Econometric Analysis in Education Policy Research
Fall 2023

Education policy research increasingly leverages econometric methods applied to large-scale datasets. This course bridges the gap between prior training in econometrics or causal inference and the application of these techniques …

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Difficulty
GPA
EDLF 8360 Multilevel Modeling in Education Research
Spring 2026

This course is designed to familiarize students with the basics of multilevel modeling. Topics include random effects ANOVA models, means-as-outcomes models, random coefficients models, intercepts- and slopes-as-outcomes models, contextual models, …

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Difficulty
3.80
GPA
EDLF 8361 Structural Equation Modeling
Spring 2026

The major topics include exploratory/confirmatory factor analysis models, a variety of structural equation models, growth curve models, and multi-sample modeling analysis. The major focus of the course is both on …

Rating
Difficulty
3.81
GPA
EDLF 8380 Special Topics in Qualitative Methods: Case Study Research
Spring 2022

This course is intended for graduate students who have used or plan to use case study methods in their own research. The course will examine the foundations, logic, design, and …

Rating
Difficulty
3.99
GPA