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Oct 14, 2025
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2025-2026 Endicott College Academic Catalog
Educational Leadership: Transformational Leading and Learning with a Concentration in PreK-12 Education (Doctor of Education)
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The Endicott College Education Doctorate (Ed.D.) Educational Leadership degree program with a concentration in PreK -12 Education has been carefully designed to be responsive to the needs of mid-career professionals offering coursework primarily online and through residencies focused on professional development. The Ed.D. program blends theory, research, and practice to address challenges faced by contemporary schools and trains equity minded scholar-practitioners whose knowledge, leadership, analytic and management skills will facilitate high levels of teacher and student performance. The year-long apprenticeship experience provides significant opportunity to apply learning along with mentor observations and input.
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Curriculum Requirements - Total Credits Required: 57
The Foundation Courses provide the framework for what we mean by scholar practitioner. Each of the Foundation Courses is grounded in the assumption that research in service of improved practice will facilitate deliberate change.
These courses address such issues as: how bias and our histories inform how we understand the world; how we can ethically identify and describe practice-embedded educational research; how conducting a literature review and integrating, from both practice and research, allows us to be transparent and critical about the ways we pursue and generate knowledge; how we can align research questions and approaches; and what it looks like to gather and work with research data in the context of practice.
K-12 Leadership Electives
Electives - 12 credits Students must choose four of the following courses: Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this program, students will: - Locate, analyze and synthesize existing research to address problems in the field that address questions of equity, ethics, and social justice to bring about solutions to complex problems of practice.
- Prepares leaders who can construct and apply knowledge, theories and frameworks from education and related fields of inquiry to make a positive difference in the lives of individuals, families, organizations, and communities
- Utilize social scientific research processes (Action Research) to develop and evaluate research
- Emphasizes the generation, transformation, and use of professional knowledge and practice to communicate clearly with scholarly audiences and communities via written research, oral presentations, and in dialog with each other which integrates multiple perspectives.
- Develops a professional knowledge base that integrates both practical and research knowledge, which links theory with systemic and systematic inquiry to affect change in educational contexts and the greater community.
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