Ed.D. with P-12 School Administration Specialization and Teacher Leadership Concentration—60 hours
Prerequisites: Human Growth and Development, Instructional Technology, Educational Assessment
Transfer Credit by Petition: Maximum of 12 semester hours of master’s credit and 15 semester hours of education specialist credit from regionally accredited institutions may be applied by petition upon approval of the Ed.D. Program Director.
Teacher Leadership: The coursework for this concentration prepares teacher leaders and is based on the same CAEP and Tennessee Department of Education standards as the IL coursework (without practicum requirements) and integrates doctoral-level outcomes in research, practice, and analysis in school leadership. This non-licensure track has three components: Leadership Issues, Leadership Practice, and Leadership Research.
Degree Requirements
Leadership Issues Courses—15 hours
| EDU 707 | Legal Issues in School Governance | 3 |
| EDU 714 | Leadership Issues I: Theories and Strategies | 3 |
| EDU 715 | Leadership Issues II: Planning and Finance | 3 |
| EDU 722 | Teacher Leadership | 3 |
| EDU 723 | Faith and Ethics in Educational Leadership | 3 |
Leadership Practice Courses—18 hours
| EDU 702 | Engaged Learning | 3 |
| EDU 703 | Supervision | 3 |
| EDU 706 | Organizational Decision Making | 3 |
| EDU 708 | Curriculum and School Improvement | 3 |
| EDU 721 | Literacy Across the Curriculum | 3 |
| EDU 786 | Seminar: Multicultural and Diversity Issues in Education | 3 |
Leadership Research Courses—27 hours
Exit Assessments
Completion of:
- Minimum of 3.2 GPA in Ed.D. courses
- The Qualifying Paper
- Dissertation Proposal (with Approval by Committee)
- Comprehensive Examination
- Oral Defense of Comprehensive Examination
- Dissertation
- Oral Defense of Dissertation