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School Leadership Program
Featuring Program Director, Dr. Julie Jhun
SLP Mission
The听 School Leadership Program develops leaders with an adaptive mindset who use their heart and minds to engage courageously and humanistically creating 听excellent learning environments. Using the lenses of critical pedagogy, generative dispositions, and habits of mind, leaders build and foster retorative school cultures that manifest learning, critical thinking, voice, debate and collaboration. Creating systems that support the growth for all, with the moral commitment to the most under-served populations 听equity, justice and critical consciousness are ensured. With lenses of culture, dignity , social responsibility and听 informed citizenry,听 communities of activism thrive and transform.
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SLP Vision
Grounded in critical consciousness and a moral imperative we create generative leaders commited to activism by:
Leaders engage in archaeology of self excavating their own histories, identities, intersectionalities, biases, and how hegemonic systems have and continue to impact their lived experience. Leaders embody cultural humility and are continually becoming in their leadership.
Leaders dream, develop, and move towards听collective liberatory transformation.听Leaders embody an ethic of care and recognize the value of diverse lived experiences. Leaders听recognize the centrality of a collective and loving community in creating meaningful change in schools.
Leaders recognize the current unjust educational system and听actively work towards liberation, focused on the most marginalized students and communities.
Leaders understand that听continuous improvement drives school change. Leaders actively surface and听disrupt systems of oppressions. Leaders are nimble, embrace growth, discomfort, learning, reflecting, and听develop an adaptive school culture.
Leaders are aware of their resources, especially humans.听Leaders innovate and reimagine how we leverage time, energy, money, and community capital to serve all students. Leaders听design from the margins.
CREDENTIAL/MASTERS PROGRAMS
Our program offers an accelerated model with pathways using both a hybrid and online delivery model.听 Using face-to-face meetings, technologies including video conferencing, and a variety of other tools,听students become part of CSUDH school leaders community. Through coursework, fieldwork, and clinical practice, aspiring leaders are considered "Ready to Lead"听at the conclusion of our Preliminary Credential program and are prepared to 鈥淟ead On鈥� at the conclusion of our Clear Credential program.
Program Overviews
Our program is an accelerated model with pathways both a hybrid and online delivery model.听 Using face to face meetings,听 technologies including video conferencing and a variety of other tools,听 students are become part of听CSUDH听school leaders community. With coursework, , fieldwork and clinical practice aspiring leaders are considered "Ready to Lead"听 at the conclusion of the program.听
What is the right program for you?
Preliminary Administrative Services Credential (PASC)
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Master of Arts School Leadership Program
The credential option is a two-semester cohort program for qualified candidates, grounded in the California Professional Standards for Educational Leaders (CPSELs) and the California Administrator Performance Expectations (CAPEs). It integrates coursework, fieldwork, and clinical practice to prepare aspiring leaders. Different pathways are available including hybrid, online, and a pathway for charter and autonomous school educators (CASLA - Charter and Autonomous School Leadership Academy).听
The Master of Arts in School Leadership builds on the Preliminary Credential coursework with six additional units in research and learning, a valuable qualification for leadership positions that often require a master鈥檚 degree.
Clear Induction Administrative Services Credential Program (CASC)
The Clear Administrative Services Credential program is a hybrid two-year, 6-course program. It is framed around the needs of the candidates in relation to the California Professional Standards for Educational Leaders (CPSELs). Candidates must create and compile an Individual Induction Plan, compile Evidence Folders that showcase growth in the CPSELS, take and analyze personal Assessments, and participate in Coaching and Professional Development.
We Develop Leaders with dispositions and mindsets of the heart and mind that are:
- Culturally, ethically, inclusively communicatively intelligent
- Unwavering advocates for the learning for all
- Courageous champions of equity
- Humanistic systems thinkers
- Curious, humble generative leaders
- Hackers of systems
- Navigators of the ecto
- Self-actualized in a culture of adaptivity
- Aware of their own immunities, bias, triggers, and growth points and how to mitigate
- Authentically empathetic听听听
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The SLP Program within the College of Education is designed to further the college鈥檚 mission and goals in four critical ways:
Urban and Diverse:听
Because most SLP credential candidates work within the greater Los Angeles basin, one of the most diverse areas in the country, the SLP program is dedicated to preparing future school leaders to work in urban settings with culturally and linguistically diverse learners. Program curricula are constructed carefully to forward this important goal of preparing educational leaders to work in diverse settings. As a critical aspect of their course work, candidates learn interactive strategies that encourage the success of all candidates, especially those from low socioeconomic and culturally diverse backgrounds.Theory into Practice:
An additional aspect of the SLP program is the blending of theory and practice. Course assignments and projects are connected to classrooms and related sites. Additionally, through field experience in school districts and other community agencies, all SLP candidates are provided with opportunities to apply theoretical issues in challenging practical settings.
Standards-Based:
The SLP program responds to the standards and expectations set by the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CCTC). As they progress through their course of study, candidates are provided a range of opportunities to demonstrate competencies to meet and exceed the standards.
Performance-Based:
To ensure that the SLP program connects with the needs of the schools within our service area, the SLP program is evaluated systematically. Through these systematic and frequent evaluations, the SLP program is modified to reflect emerging needs in the communities we serve, as well as address emerging developments in the professional fields.听听
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"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel." Maya Angelou
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