This course meets the education competency requirement for the California Professional Clear Credential. This course provides advanced study of educational reform. Students become familiar with the current research on effective schools and the values and efforts that brought them into being. Central issues in reform such as state control, accountability, curriculum, resistance, and community building are examined. Students research the specific challenges in California school reform, in particular language and cultural diversity.
Students study organizational change and group leadership models.
Leaders of social change in organization are studied and their methods identified and analyzed in terms of applicability to school reform. Completion of the Teacher Credential Requirements. In this course, students finalize their thesis design and begin the data collection phase of their projects. They act as peer mentors to each other providing both support and critique. Students complete the literature review for their thesis project and expand their skills in the use of descriptive and inferential statistics in data analysis.