Office: Sweeney Hall 401
Telephone: 408-924-3616
Email: edleadership@sjsu.edu
Website: sjsu.edu/edleadership

Professors
Rebeca Burciaga
Arnold Danzig
María Ledesma, Chair

Assistant Professor
Liliana Castrellón
Veneice Guillory-Lacy

EdD Program Core Faculty
Allison Briceno | Associate EdD Program Director and Professor, Teacher Education
Rebeca Burciaga | Professor, Educational Leadership
Liliana Castrellón | Assistant Professor, Educational Leadership
Arnold Danzig | Professor, Educational Leadership
Brent Duckor | Professor, Teacher Education
Deanna Fassett | Professor, Communication Studies
Maria Fusaro | Associate Professor, Child and Adolescent Development
Veneice Guillory-Lacy | Assistant Professor, Educational Leadership
Lara Kassab | Associate Professor, Teacher Education
Sudha Krishnan | Assistant Professor, Special Education
Saili Kulkarni | Associate Professor, Special Education
Maria Ledesma | Department Chair and Professor, Educational Leadership
Cara Maffini | Associate Professor, Child & Adolescent Development
Roxana Marachi | Professor, Teacher Education
Robert Marx | Assistant Professor, Child & Adolescent Development
Kathleen McConnell | Professor, Communication Studies
Dolores Mena | Professor, Counselor Education
Ellen Middaugh | EdD Program Director and Associate Professor, Child and Adolescent Development
Nikos Mourtos | Professor, Aerospace Engineering
Eduardo Muñoz-Muñoz | Associate Professor, Teacher Education
Rachel O’Malley | Professor, Environmental Studies
Luis Poza | Associate Professor, Teacher Education
Ferdie Rivera | Professor, Mathematics and Statistics
Lisa Simpson | Department Chair & Associate Professor, Special Education
Emily Slusser | Professor, Child and Adolescent Development
Grinell Smith | Professor, Teacher Education
Megan Thiele | Associate Professor, Sociology
Kim Tsai | Associate Professor, Child & Adolescent Development
Tammie Visintainer | Assistant Professor, Teacher Education
David Whitenack | Department Chair and Professor, Teacher Education

EdD Program Affiliated Faculty
Seth Corrigan | Lecturer, Educational Leadership
Roxane Fuentes | Lecturer, Educational Leadership
Michael Gallagher | Lecturer, Educational Leadership
John Pappalardo | Lecturer, Educational Leadership
Noni Reis | Emerita Professor, Educational Leadership
Shelly Viramontez | Lecturer, Educational Leadership

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.

The department offers undergraduate, masters, doctoral, and certificate programs. The Ed.D. program in Educational Leadership emphasizes social justice and human centered approaches to educational leadership. The program builds on the view that educational leaders serve in learner-centered systems in which inquiry, learning, equity and social justice, and human care are central concerns. The program’s vision is to prepare the next generation of leaders with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to understand the causes of inequitable outcomes in PK-12 and higher educational institutions. Students in this program assess and develop pedagogies, practices, policies, and curricula that hold the potential to improve the life chances of all students, especially minoritized students. 

The department offers a streamlined pathway from the MA to the Ed.D. to students in the Emancipatory School Leadership Program (MELS) and the Higher Education Leadership Program (HELM). Eligible students must be currently enrolled in the MELS or HELM program in good academic standing, with no probation and/or academic notices, and with intentions to pursue an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership.

Programs

• Interdisciplinary Studies, Educational and Community Leadership Concentration, BA (SJSU Online)

• Educational Leadership, Concentration in Emancipatory School Leadership, MA
• Higher Education Leadership, MA

• Educational Leadership, EdD (Fully Online)
• Educational Leadership, EdD (Hybrid)

• Higher Education Teaching Certificate

The mission of SJSU Online is to expand higher education access and degree attainment for learners requiring a fully online degree pathway. These upper division degree completion programs are offered through a special session that requires a separate application process. If interested, please contact one of our Enrollment Counselors for more information.

• Interdisciplinary Studies, Educational and Community Leadership Concentration, BA (SJSU Online)

Courses

• EDD 501 - Quantitative Analysis for Educational Research
• EDD 502 - Qualitative Methods in Educational Research
• EDD 510 - Educational Leadership: Theory and Practice
• EDD 511 - Leadership for Learner Centered Organizations
• EDD 512 - Leadership, Complexity, and Systems Thinking
• EDD 515 - Leadership, Diversity, and Culture: Family, School and Community Connections
• EDD 520 - Organizational Behavior and Change in Education
• EDD 522 - Communication and Educational Leadership
• EDD 530 - Assessment, Testing and Evaluation: Contexts and Implications for School Reform
• EDD 535 - Education Policy, Resource Allocation and School Reform
• EDD 536 - The Politics of Education and Finance of Schooling
• EDD 540 - Education and Leadership in Global Context: Globalization & Narrative Ethics
• EDD 585 - Field Experience: Global Context
• EDD 591A - Proseminar I: Introduction to Doctoral Studies in Educational Leadership
• EDD 591B - Proseminar II - Practitioner-Led Research
• EDD 591C - Professional Seminar III: Structuring & Writing a High Quality Dissertation
• EDD 599 - Dissertation
• EDD 1290R - Culminating Experience Supervision

• EDD 590 - Research Seminar and Colloquium in Educational Leadership
• EDD 598 - Dissertation Research Development
• EDLD 10 - Talking Back to Research: Critical Skills for Leaders
• EDLD 11 - Making Research Work: Explorations in Career Pathways
• EDLD 101 - Rediscovering Disability Studies at the Intersections
• 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 210 - Socio-Cultural Foundations of U.S. Higher Education
• EDLD 211 - Higher Education Leadership
• EDLD 212 - Diversity, Equity, and Social Justice in Higher Education
• EDLD 212C - Diversity, Equity, and Social Justice in Higher Education
• EDLD 213 - Policy and Ethics of Higher Education Governance and Finance
• EDLD 214 - Critical Data Analysis in Higher Education
• EDLD 215 - Contemporary Issues in Higher Education
• EDLD 216 - Law, Policy, and Ethics in Higher Education
• EDLD 217A - Equity-Minded Leadership in Higher Education: Practices, Policies, and Pedagogies
• EDLD 217B - Equity-Minded Leadership in Higher Education as Praxis
• EDLD 250 - Emancipatory Pedagogy in Higher Education
• EDLD 251 - Higher Education Teaching Practicum
• EDLD 253 - Envisioning Emancipatory Leadership for Schools
• EDLD 280 - Individual Studies in Educational Leadership
• EDLD 298 - Higher Education Leadership Master’s Capstone/Culminating Experience Course