https://www.calstatela.edu/coe/aase/edd-educational-leadership

The Cal State LA Doctorate in Educational Leadership is a doctoral degree program designed for those who wish to assume greater leadership roles in educational organizations and are committed to addressing the challenges of urban education through relevant and meaningful scholarship and practitioner-based inquiry. With an emphasis placed on leadership in practice, the program fosters an understanding of the many contexts in which educational leadership takes place. It focuses on the expertise, scholarship, and inquiry necessary to advance all students’ rights to an education that supports social and economic justice and academic success. The program aims to develop leaders who engage in collaboration with members of diverse urban communities to analyze how the policies and practices of educational, political, and legal institutions are addressing issues of access, equity, and full democratic participation. The program also looks to enhance the leadership skills of its degree candidates through work and community-based experiences. To ensure that applicants have a professional background engaging with the educational sector and community that the sector serves, we ask that all applicants have at least four years of professional work experience in California educational institutions, preferably in public PK-12 schools or community colleges.

Institutional Learning Outcomes (ILO) - 2024 Cycle

All proposed changes to this program are aligned with Cal State LA’s institutional commitments to responding to the needs of local communities (ILO #3: Place and Community) while providing students the opportunity to develop their own knowledge and capacities (ILO #2: Proficiency). The Ed.D. is committed to developing educational leaders as scholar-practitioners prepared to use the skills of research and inquiry (ILO #1: Knowledge) to engage in transformative work in their sites of practice (ILO #4: Transformation).  

Program Learning Outcomes (PLO) - 2024 Cycle

IMPACT inclusive communities and cohorts, using funds of knowledge, educational technologies, and effective communications to dismantle oppression. 

ENGAGE in personal reflection, critical examination of bias and privilege, scholarly inquiry and healing to provide fair, respectful and humanizing leadership practice and communication.  

LEAD through critical (anti-racist, decolonial) lenses that affirms cultural, gender, linguistic and economic diversity, and creates capacity within the institution and distributes resources equitably.