Leadership and Advocacy -
Candidates enhance their leadership capabilities and learn advocacy strategies to support education improvements and reforms focusing on developing skills in leading diverse teams, managing conflicts, and engaging stakeholders effectively within the education policy space. Candidates are prepared to advocate for education policy change considering a wide range of values including their own, their employer’s, and other influences. Through case studies, role-playing, and authentic scenarios, candidates gain experience in influencing policy decisions, negotiating change, and empowering communities to support educational advancement.

• Identify methods of advocacy utilized for different target audiences. [MC5]
• Compare state-level education governance and finance policy issues.
• Develop alternative solutions to a single problem. [MC2]
• Align a value statement with a policy solution. [MC3]
• Advocate for preferred solutions or alternatives. [MC1, MC4]