Office: Sweeney Hall 219

Telephone: 408-924-3616

Email: edleadership@sjsu.edu

Website: sjsu.edu/edleadership

Professors

Arnold Danzig
Mei-Yan Lu​, Chair
Bradley Porfilio

Associate Professors

Rebeca Burciaga
María Ledesma

Overview

The Department of Educational Leadership prepares leaders to champion anti-racist and emancipatory approaches to leadership. We equip our graduates with the skills, knowledge, and experience to engage with and learn from the community cultural wealth of the diverse communities we serve.

Programs

• Interdisciplinary Studies, Educational and Community Leadership Concentration, BA

• Transformative Leadership Minor

• Educational Leadership, Concentration in Emancipatory School Leadership, MA

Courses

• EDLD 110 - Introduction to Educational and Community Leadership
• EDLD 120 - The Right to Learn: Language, Dignity, and Education
• EDLD 130 - Antiracist Leadership: Cases, Frameworks, and Praxis
• EDLD 140 - Identity, Solidarity, and Social Justice Leadership
• EDLD 150 - Communication, Leadership, and Social Justice
• EDLD 160 - 1st Generation College Students Pathways
• EDLD 200 - The School Manager
• EDLD 201 - Epistemologies of Educational Leadership: Personal, Political, & Intellectual
• EDLD 202 - Emancipatory Teaching and Learning
• EDLD 204 - Critical Studies of Educational Policy
• EDLD 205 - Equity & Access: Practices, Policies, & Pedagogies
• EDLD 206 - Emancipatory Leadership as Praxis Seminar
• EDLD 253 - Envisioning Emancipatory Leadership for Schools
• EDLD 298 - Individual Studies in Educational Leadership