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Program Description
The EdD in Leadership and Innovation is a rigorous 24-month online doctoral program that combines the discipline of a top-tier university with an innovative approach to education and leadership. Rooted in a rigorous, cohort-style academic experience, this advanced degree program is designed for cross-sector leaders who are motivated to create change in education and organizational learning. Coursework culminates in a completed Problem of Practice, an innovation or improvement study embedded in the student’s professional organization, which drives the actionable and practice-focused nature of the degree. This program serves current leaders from across fields who understand that by working and learning together, they can affect sustainable and scalable change in their organizations.
Career Opportunities
Graduates of the Educational Leadership program assume key leadership roles in education and nonprofit organizations, nationally and internationally. Among them are superintendents, principals, directors, and supervisors of various programs, school business administrators, assistant principals, university professors, policy researchers, policy analysts, community organizers, and education advocates.
Admissions
Admission to graduate programs in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development requires the following minimum components:
- Résumé/CV
- Statement of Purpose
- Letters of Recommendation
- Transcripts
- Proficiency in English
See NYU Steinhardt's Graduate Admissions website for additional information on school-wide admission. Some programs may require additional components for admissions.
See Admission Requirements for admission requirements and instructions specific to this program.
Program Requirements
The program requires the completion of 42 credits beyond the master’s degree, comprised of the following:
Case Study Project
Students complete four culminating elements as part of the case study project:
Leadership
Students are required to write an auto-ethnography in this course. The auto-ethnography is an examination of the student’s educational and leadership development, the milestones the student has achieved as a professional.
Research Methods
Students are required to conduct a case study of their own organization (or if students are not in an organization at the time of the assignment, they will be placed with one). The case study entails students assessing the organization for strengths, weakness, opportunities and threats in its culture and overall functioning.
Capstone I and II
Students are required to identify a problem of practice from their case study and develop an Organizational Improvement Plan (OIP). The OIP will require students to identify a problem of practice emerging from their case study assignment; shape a research question; develop an OIP proposal; develop a bibliography; conduct an action research project for the OIP; and demonstrate the solution or impact of the OIP on the organization.
Final Capstone Project
Students will present their final Capstone Project to their committee and their classmates.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the program, graduates will:
- Apply relevant principles and concepts drawn from a range of theories in leadership, organizational management, cross-sector partnership, and educational policy to their current and future professional field in education.
- Conduct action research and use quantitative and qualitative analysis to measure outcomes and performance of an organization or program.
- Develop multiple solutions to a POP through the systematic application of theory, research and reason, and ultimately, describe readiness for their organizational change using appropriate models/tools and communicate the plan to organizational and community stakeholders.
Policies
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University-wide policies can be found on the New York University Policy pages.
Steinhardt Academic Policies
Additional academic policies can be found the Steinhardt academic policies page.