School Improvement
Doctorate in Education
Program Strengths
- 60-hour program includes courses focusing on leadership, teaching and learning, school reform, diversity, legal issues and research.
- The program is grounded in research knowledge and skills, technological competence, teaching and learning processes, and a commitment to diversity.
- NCATE accredited.
- Georgia PSC accredited.
- SACS accredited.
Special Opportunities
- Graduates strategically and collaboratively plan, design, implement and document the impact of educational improvement programs that bring all students to high levels of academic achievement and social development.
- Each spring, up to 20 individuals are selected to form a cohort group that begin coursework that summer. The cohort group progresses through the same coursework together until the dissertation stage, when schedules become more individualized.
Job Opportunities
- Teacher leaders
- School administrators
- School district personnel
- State and regional education specialists
Faculty Specialties/Interests
- Legal and ethical leadership
- Research for school improvement
- Models of school improvement and reform
- Leadership for change
- State and local applications of school improvement
- Leadership for diversity in the 21st century
- Instructional supervision
- Instructional design
- School culture and climate
