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The School Business Manager strives to achieve district goals by providing leadership and supervision in the district?'s program of fiscal management and in other assigned programs. This course provides superintendent candidates with an opportunity to gain substantive knowledge about major components related to school business management. This course overview includes topics related to school business management. Candidates seeking the superintendent licensure will be provided the opportunity to gain substantive knowledge about collective bargaining and labor relations, food service management, office administration, personnel management, purchasing, school finance, school law, risk management, transportation management and school plant management and operations. There is also an eight-hour field component required in this course. This course is considered to be part of the attainment of the Superintendent?'s licensure.
The demands and challenges of the 21st century require innovations on the part of teachers, administrators, schools, and communities to fully prepare students for college, career, and beyond. Educators who take on the whole child approach, which aims to ensure that each student is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged, set the standard for comprehensive, sustainable school improvement and provides students with the opportunity for long-term success. This course looks at how this approach works in relation to a school district leader?'s approach to academic achievement, culture and climate, curriculum and instruction, and impact of outside forces, which may or may not affect school district practices. These include the best practices found in educational research and school reform initiatives. There is also an eight hour field component required in this course. This course is considered to be part of the attainment of the Superintendent?'s licensure.
This course is designed to develop candidates for school district leadership by providing opportunities to synthesize, practice, and apply knowledge from superintendent preparation coursework in the real-world setting of functioning schools. Practice-based coursework assignments related to each standard of district leadership are synthesized in a theory-based, reflective document that serves as a comprehensive program examination of preparedness for district leadership. During the internship, candidates will engage in self-assessment of strengths, weaknesses, areas of particular interest, and will increasingly assume responsibility for their continuing professional development by planning for and completing a program of field experiences. Candidates will be challenged and expected to: 1.) Think critically about the role of the superintendent and leading effective school districts, 2.) Engage in reflective thinking about the role of the superintendent and leading effective school districts, 3.) Integrate a variety of ideas regarding the role of the superintendent and leading effective schools, and 4.) Synthesize coursework into a meaningful framework of understanding about the role of the superintendent and leading effective schools. This course is considered to be a part of the attainment of the Superintendent?'s licensure.
