Educational Leadership
Subdomains
Click on the subdomain titles to examine the range of skills and concepts a student can expect to demonstrate for assessment of this Domain:
- Governance, Finance, Law and Leadership for Principals
- Measurement, Analysis and Knowledge Management for Educational Leaders
- Performance Excellence Criteria for Educational Leaders
- Practicum in Educational Leadership
- Process Management for Educational Leaders
- Strategic Planning for Educational Leaders
- Student, Stakeholder and Market Focus for Educational Leaders
- Workforce Focus for Educational Leaders
Governance, Finance, Law and Leadership for Principals
- The graduate analyzes of theories of organizational behavior and management.
- The graduate develops a philosophy of the principal's role as one of instructional team leadership, and effectively acts in this role.
- The graduate analyzes and evaluates techniques used by leadership in a PK-12 educational institution to guide and sustain the school organization.
- The graduate evaluates methods employed by leadership in a PK-12 educational institution to communicate with school faculty and staff.
- The graduate evaluates the ethics of a PK-12 school's governance system's operations.
- The graduate applies in practice knowledge of procedures for the operation of school organizations in compliance with legal and fiscal guidelines.
Measurement, Analysis and Knowledge Management for Educational Leaders
- The graduate describes how a PK-12 school measures, analyzes, aligns, reviews, and improves student and operational performance through the use of data and information at all levels.
- The graduate assesses how a PK-12 school systematically uses the results of reviews to evaluate and improve processes.
- The graduate plans an effectiveness evaluation in a school organization.
- The graduate executes a "Plan, Do, Study, Act" model of effectiveness evaluation.
- The graduate evaluates how a PK-12 school organization ensures the quality and availability of needed data, information, software, and hardware for all stakeholders.
- The graduate examines how a PK-12 school organization manages its knowledge assets.
Performance Excellence Criteria for Educational Leaders
- The graduate performs an environmental scan of an educational organization's operations and structure.
- The graduate investigates the influences and challenges faced in a PK-12 institution.
- The graduate describes the roles of stakeholders of a PK-12 educational institution and their effect on the organization's operations.
- The graduate analyzes a PK-12 educational institution's key student learning results and outcomes.
- The graduate evaluates a PK-12 educational institution's key governance and leadership results and outcomes.
Practicum in Educational Leadership
- The graduate observes and evaluates faculty and staff performance.
- The graduate plans for and implements meaningful and relevant professional development for instructional staff.
- The graduate plans for engagement and involvement of community stakeholders and district personnel.
- The graduate selects and utilizes appropriate technology tools in carrying out the responsibilities of instructional team leadership.
- The graduate relates a personal style of instructional team leadership to student achievement and school operations.
- The graduate conducts a curricular gap analysis as a data-driven school improvement measure.
- The graduate conducts action research to support improvement of a PK-12 school organization's key performance processes and outcomes.
Process Management for Educational Leaders
- The graduate investigates the core competencies of an educational organization.
- The graduate investigates how a PK-12 school organization designs its work systems and key processes.
- The graduate evaluates how a PK-12 school organization implements, manages, and improves its key work processes to deliver student and stakeholder value.
- The graduate examines how a PK-12 school organization plans for organizational success and sustainability.
- The graduate evaluates the use of decision-making process management models in educational organizations.
Strategic Planning for Educational Leaders
- The graduate identifies strategic challenges and advantages.
- The graduate analyzes how a PK-12 school utilizes strategic planning to address strategic challenges and enhance its advantages.
- The graduate analyzes how a school organization converts objectives into executable action plans.
- The graduate evaluates the performance of a PK-12 school's action plan.
- The graduate assesses how future performance of a school organization's action plan will be impacted by current decisions and actions.
Student, Stakeholder and Market Focus for Educational Leaders
- The graduate assesses the influence of the greater social, political, economic, legal, and cultural contexts and environments on school organizations.
- The graduate describes how a PK-12 school organization determines needs and maintains relationships with students, stakeholders, and markets to ensure the continuing relevance of educational programs, offerings, and services.
- The graduate analyzes and acts upon knowledge of how a PK-12 school organization can increase student and stakeholder loyalty and satisfaction.
- The graduate establishes an effective public relations plan in an educational institution, and is able to effectively plan for public interaction in this leadership role.
- The graduate develops appropriate techniques for written and oral communication with an educational organization's stakeholder groups.
- The graduate applies fundamental principles of curriculum design and assessment to develop learner statements and power standards in response to data-driven school improvement initiatives.
Workforce Focus for Educational Leaders
- The graduate examines how a PK-12 school organization engages, compensates, and rewards faculty and staff to encourage them to achieve high performance.
- The graduate examines how the leadership of a PK-12 school organization develops professional development programs to achieve high performance.
- The graduate examines how a PK-12 school organization assesses workforce engagement and uses the results to achieve higher performance.
- The graduate investigates how a PK-12 school organization manages workforce capability and capacity to accomplish the work of the organization.
- The graduate summarizes how a PK-12 school organization maintains a safe, secure, and supportive work climate.
- The graduate assesses the impact of legal, legislative, and labor issues on personnel management practices in public and private schools.



