Prepares leaders and agents of change An emphasis on leadership and school improvement begins when students enter the program and are carried on throughout Leadership for Organizational Change taken the second summer Directed Field Study, observing leadership with a mentor, taken the second summer Students are encouraged to take electives to enrich their understanding of leadership Action Research presented as a form of leadership and change Provides field-based opportunities Cycles of action research begin the first semester Three successive aligned research-core classes support action research learning Leader-scholar communities form during the third and fourth semester to support action research An action research dissertation is the program’s capstone