LDR 513 Collaborating with Stakeholders to Promote Change

This course provides Teacher Leader candidates with tools to assess their own preparation, strengths, areas for cultivation, and context-based opportunities to grow as Teacher Leaders. It links candidates’ growth with aspects of their work environments to which they would most like to contribute. Each candidate constructs a model comparing the current reality of a particular problem situated in his or her school and the reality that would be more desirable, for problems that are within the candidate’s capacity to help bring about positive change Over the course, candidates recursively build out the model for positive action, identifying stakeholders in both realities and their shared incentives to make change, along with the steps and the players that would be needed to make change in realistic time frames. Candidates build negotiation and professional management skills as they study conflict, negotiation, collaboration, and change and systems theory. Pre-requisite(s): None. Co-requisite(s): None. 2-3 semester hours