Program: Early Childhood Leadership
Position Vacancy: Adjunct Instructor
Semester: Summer 2026
Course title: Leading Critical Issues in Curriculum and Instruction
Course number: LEAD 510
Credits: 3 credits
Day / Time: TBD
Modality: online
The Early Childhood Leadership program works with students to develop progressive justice-oriented leadership lens. Students are guided through curriculum that helps shape inclusive, and equitable learning environments for children, families, and educators. Students who complete our program will have strengthened leadership practices focused in the areas of supervision, management, and professional development. The Early Childhood Leadership program seeks to support future leaders in driving systemic change across early childhood and varied school settings.
Course Description:
This course focuses on the roles and functions of the school leader in the spheres of curriculum and instruction. It covers the principles and processes that inform curriculum development and their impact on student learning. By explicitly addressing the relationship between curriculum and instruction to critical theory and pedagogy, students will connect positionality to their professional noticing. At the same time, students will unpack educational equity to become discerning consumers and negotiators of curriculum. In this course, students will envision and conceptualize ways to ensure that all students experience a liberating curriculum by focusing intensively on the knowledge and tools needed to recognize and dismantle dehumanizing spaces that are emblematic of historic and contemporary systems and structures. Finally, the course explores critical issues in leadership in curriculum and instruction and is designed to connect theory to practice as a means of inspiring, guiding, and effecting school change.
Qualifications:
Compensation: $4,593