Educational Leadership and Management Royal Roads University

Overview

The Educational Leadership and Management program is offered at Royal Roads University.

Across the country schools are experiencing ongoing difficulty in recruiting qualified candidates for leadership roles. Aspiring leaders need to have access to relevant and accessible post-graduate programs to be able to meet the educational standards required by many school districts.

Faculty with real-world experience deliver relevant curriculum and experiences that ensure existing and aspiring school administrators develop the knowledge and skills required to function as effective leaders within complex and challenging educational environments.

Administrators and teachers within K-12 educational institutions who want to gain skills and credentials as leaders and managers to advance their current career or launch a new one.

Applicants who do not have the formal academic education to qualify for admission may be assessed on the basis of both their formal education and their informal learning, in accordance with the Flexible Admission Policy. Please see Program Admission for more information.

Outcomes

Graduates will be able to apply practical tools and strategies to address issues, challenges, and opportunities related to supporting student achievement and growth. Graduates will have the skills to:

• Facilitate the collaborative development and implementation of shared values, vision, mission, and goals to support learning and achievement for all students;
• Understand and use change and improvement processes to support student learning and achievement;
• Build positive and effective relationships between the school, families and the larger community;
• Integrate evidence-based decision making approaches into school leadership practices to support school growth and improvement;
• Engage in meaningful self-assessment and self-awareness to enhance leadership skills, positive relationships, and professional goals;
• Maximize opportunities for curricular, instructional, and assessment practices to have a positive impact on student learning and achievement;
• Apply systems thinking to strategically plan and manage the school environment to support student learning;
• Foster and sustain an inclusive culture and climate to support both student learning and professional growth;
• Implement authentic and meaningful strategies for supporting and supervising teachers’ instructional capacities to maximize student learning and achievement; and
• Lead collaborative and systematic inquiry processes that support school improvement.