Fall 2025

Facilitate culturally responsive interventions in mental health leadership. Address racial disparities; design, apply and assess diversity, equity and inclusion programming.

Apply organizational frameworks for mental health leadership. Introduce theory to enhance service delivery, prioritize client care and promote societal impact.

Explores urban P-20 education through social, historical, and political lenses and how research and policy shape professional practice in Los Angeles and the United States.

Provides foundational knowledge about leadership theory and practice to support students development as critically conscious leaders who take action to address inequities in urban contexts.

Develop skills to teach in diverse professional settings. Emphasize adult education philosophy, instructional design, technology integration, assessment and personal teaching philosophy development.

Enhance skills related to analysis and application of assessment, psychometric trends, ethical diagnosis, treatment and culturally competent leadership. Interpret and critique psychological testing.

Social, political, economic and scholarly factors determining curriculum and instructional design and implementation and implications for formal and informal leaders in P-20 contexts are explored.

Educational leaders utilize spatial data and technologies to study their leadership trajectories across urban P-20 settings and bring inter-disciplinary approaches to curriculum, instruction, and assessment.

Explores the historically complex relationship between education research, education (in)equity and personal practice, and will highlight the possibilities of research to foster justice in education through the examination of the utility of basic and applied quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods research.

Builds students' knowledge and skills for analyzing quantitative and qualitative data and reporting results and findings for their Dissertations in Practice.

Builds students' knowledge and skills for analyzing quantitative and qualitative data and reporting results and findings for their Dissertations in Practice.

Builds students knowledge and skills for analyzing quantitative and qualitative data and reporting results and findings for their Dissertations in Practice.