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Twin Cities Campus

Additional Licensure

Organizational Leadership, Policy and Development
College of Education and Human Development
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Contact Information
Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development (OLPD); 330 Wulling Hall, 86 Pleasant Street S.E., Minneapolis, MN 55455 (612-624-1006; fax: 612-624-3377)
Email: olpd@umn.edu
Website: http://www.cehd.umn.edu/olpd/grad-programs/Adm-Licensure/default.html
  • Program Type: Post-baccalaureate credit certificate/licensure/endorsement
  • Requirements for this program are current for Fall 2012
  • Length of program in credits: 22 to 24
  • This program does not require summer semesters for timely completion.
  • Degree: College of Education Additional Licensure
Along with the program-specific requirements listed below, please read the General Information section of this website for requirements that apply to all major fields.
The administrative licensure program offers a variety of courses specifically designed to address the competencies required by the state for the various licenses. Courses are offered throughout the year with evening courses offered during fall, spring, and summer semesters, and day courses offered during summer semester. Most students who enroll in the program are practicing teachers. On average they complete the program in one to two years.
Program Delivery
  • via classroom (the majority of instruction is face-to-face)
Prerequisites for Admission
Other requirements to be completed before admission:
This program is not offered full-time and therefore is not intended for international students needing a visa to study in the United States.
For an online application or for more information about graduate education admissions, see the General Information section of this website.
Program Requirements
Use of 4xxx courses towards program requirements is not permitted.
Students must complete all coursework with a grade of S or C or better. An electronic portfolio presented to a review panel made up of representatives from the University and licensed practitioners is required as the last step to earning licensure.
Required courses
OLPD 5391 is not required for the director of special education license. OLPD 5387 and 5391 are not required for the director of community education license.
OLPD 5310 {Inactive} (1.0 cr)
OLPD 5324 - Strategic Financial Planning and Policy for Educational Leaders (3.0 cr)
OLPD 5344 - School Law (3.0 cr)
OLPD 5348 - Leaders of Human Resources Administration (3.0 cr)
OLPD 5385 - Licensure Seminar: Program Policies and Inclusionary Leadership (1.0 cr)
OLPD 5386 - Leadership Portfolio Seminar (1.0 cr)
OLPD 5387 - Leadership for Teaching and Learning (3.0 cr)
OLPD 5384 - Special Education Law for Leaders (1.0 cr)
Program Sub-plans
Students are required to complete one of the following sub-plans.
Students may complete the program with more than one sub-plan.
Adult Basic Education
Agricultural Education 5-12
Career/Tech Ed: Comm Tech
Career/Tech Ed: Construction
Career/Tech Ed: Creative Dsgn
Career/Tech Ed: Early Child
Career/Tech Ed: Manufacturing
Career/Tech Ed: Medical
Career/Tech Ed: Accomm Special
Career/Tech Ed: Hospitality Sv
Career/Tech Ed: Transportation
Chemistry Education 9-12
Comm Arts/Lit Educ 5-8/9-12
Comm Arts/Lit Education 5-8
Computer, Keyboarding & Related Technology Applications K-12
Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Developmental and Adaptive Physical Education
Developmental Disabilities
Director of Community Ed
Students must have a bachelor's degree plus 24 credits. Additionally, they should have 320 hours of field experience.
Required courses
OLPD 5389 - Community Education Leadership (3.0 cr)
OLPD 5377 - Leadership in Community Education Finance and Law (1.0 cr)
Additional course or experiential requirements may be determined through the pre-assessment completed as part of OLPD 5385.
Adult Education (2 cr)
Early Childhood (2 cr)
School Age Programs (2 cr)
Director of Special Education
Students must possess or complete three years of teaching experience. 60 credits beyond a bachelor's degree to include a graduate degree. 320 hours of field experience.
Required courses
OLPD 5321 - The Principal as Leader of High-Performing Schools (3.0 cr)
OLPD 5368 - Leadership for Special Education Services (3.0 cr)
OLPD 5375 - Special Education Finance: Program Models, Policy, and Law (2.0 cr)
Early Childhood Educ Birth-Gr3
Early Childhood Special Education
Earth & Space Science Ed 9-12
Emotional and Behavioral Disorders
English as a Second Lang K-12
Learning Disabilities K-12
Life Science Education 9-12
Mathematics Education 5-8
Mathematics Education 5-8/9-12
Oral/Aural
Parent and Family Education
Physical Education K-12
Physics Education 9-12
Principal K-12
Students must possess or complete three years of teaching experience. 60 credits beyond a bachelor's degree to include a graduate degree. 320 hours of field experience.
Required courses
OLPD 5321 - The Principal as Leader of High-Performing Schools (3.0 cr)
OLPD 5388 - Leadership for Master(ful) Scheduling (2.0 cr)
Reading
School Counseling K-12
School Psychologist
Science Education 5-8
Social Studies Educ 5-8/9-12
Social Studies Education 5-8
Superintendent
Students must possess or complete three years of teaching experience. 60 credits beyond a bachelor's degree to include a graduate degree. 320 hours of field experience.
Required courses
OLPD 5322 - Leaders in the Superintendency and Central Office (3.0 cr)
OLPD 5376 - Leading School Tax Elections (1.0 cr)
Teacher Coordinator of Work-based Learning
Technology Education 5-12
Visual Arts Education K-12
WorldLang/Cultures: Japanese K-12
WorldLang/Cultures: Arabic K-8
WorldLang/Cultures: Arabic K-12
WorldLang/Cultures: Chinese K-12
WorldLang/Cultures: French K-8
WorldLang/Cultures: French K-12
WorldLang/Cultures: German K-8
WorldLang/Cultures: German K-12
WorldLang/Cultures: Hebrew K-8
WorldLang/Cultures: Hebrew K-12
WorldLang/Cultures: Italian K-8
WorldLang/Cultures: Italian K-12
WorldLang/Cultures: Japanese K-8
WorldLang/Cultures: Latin K-8
WorldLang/Cultures: Latin K-12
WorldLang/Cultures: Norweg K-12
WorldLang/Cultures: Ojibwe K-12
WorldLang/Cultures: Polish K-12
WorldLang/Cultures: Russian K-8
WorldLang/Cultures: Russian K-12
WorldLang/Cultures: Spanish K-12
WorldLang/Cultures: Swedish K-12
  
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OLPD 5324 - Strategic Financial Planning and Policy for Educational Leaders
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer
State-local school finance systems, budgeting, governmental fund accounting. Interpretation of financial information. Addresses competencies required under MN AR 3512 for administrative licensure Grad students working on K-12 Administrative Licensure, MA, MED or PHD prereqs: OLPD 5385 Licensure Seminar: Program Policies and Inclusionary Leadership or concurrent registration and OLPD 5386 Leadership Portfolio or concurrent registration.
OLPD 5344 - School Law
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring & Summer
Legal foundations of elementary/secondary education. Statutory themes, relevant case law, emergent policy issues. Implications for educational organizations and for administrative practice. Addresses competencies required under MN AR 3512 for administrative licensure. Grad students working on K-12 Administrative Licensure, MA, MED or PHD prereqs: OLPD 5385 Licensure Seminar: Program Policies and Inclusionary Leadership or concurrent registration and OLPD 5386 Leadership Portfolio or concurrent registration.
OLPD 5348 - Leaders of Human Resources Administration
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer
Skills for administrator/leader. Human resources administration, employee recruitment, selection, orientation/support, supervision, performance appraisal of school district personnel. Addresses competencies required under MN AR 3512 for administrative licensure. prereqs: OLPD 5385 Licensure Seminar: Program Policies and Inclusionary Leadership or concurrent registration and OLPD 5386 Leadership Portfolio or concurrent registration.
OLPD 5385 - Licensure Seminar: Program Policies and Inclusionary Leadership
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: S-N or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Overview of the rules and requirements of the U of M and MN AR, completion of the required individual pre-assessment, development of the learner?s individualized program plan. Discussion of beliefs and values that guide administrative leadership, and completion of the Intercultural Conflict Style Inventory.
OLPD 5386 - Leadership Portfolio Seminar
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: S-N or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Development of electronic administrative licensure portfolio to use throughout Administrative Licensure program. Address competencies as mandated in the LEAPS Act. Addresses competencies required under MN AR 3512 for administrative licensure. prereq: OLPD 5385 or concurrent registration is required.
OLPD 5387 - Leadership for Teaching and Learning
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer
Multiple aspects of administrating teaching/learning. Administration of teaching/learning as system in inclusive schools. Questions administrator must ask as leader of learning for students/adults. Addresses competencies required under MN AR 3512 for administrative licensure. prereqs: OLPD 5385 Licensure Seminar: Program Policies and Inclusionary Leadership or concurrent registration and OLPD 5386 Leadership Portfolio or concurrent registration.
OLPD 5384 - Special Education Law for Leaders
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall & Summer
Competencies of leadership, policy, and political influence. Legal/regulatory applications focusing on special education law. Addresses competencies required under MN AR 3512 for administrative licensure prereq: Grad students working on K-12 Administrative Licensure and/or Master in Education (Leadership in Education)
OLPD 5389 - Community Education Leadership
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer
Competencies of leadership, community relations, communication, community assessment, program development, program evaluation. Philosophy/administration of community/alternative education programs. Addresses competencies required under MN AR 3512 for administrative licensure. prereqs: OLPD 5385 Licensure Seminar: Program Policies and Inclusionary Leadership or concurrent registration and OLPD 5386 Leadership Portfolio or concurrent registration.
OLPD 5377 - Leadership in Community Education Finance and Law
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer
Statute 124D and its relationship to each of the categories of community education: early childhood, family education, adult basic education, and ALC funding. Revenues and expenditures, UFARS, and how to access information. Organize financial and legal data for presentation. The course will be approached from the frame of resource development. Prereqs: OLPD 5385, OLPD 5386
OLPD 5321 - The Principal as Leader of High-Performing Schools
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Theory and practice for educational leadership that is specifically applied to the principalship. Overview competencies in AR 3512 required for MN K-12 principal licensure. Examines roles of the principal as a leader and manager. prereqs: OLPD 5385 Licensure Seminar: Program Policies and Inclusionary Leadership or concurrent registration and OLPD 5386 Leadership Portfolio or concurrent registration.
OLPD 5368 - Leadership for Special Education Services
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer
Legislative, procedural, executive, and judicial actions that affect services, families, and children with special needs at federal, state, and local levels. Overview of cultural competence, conflict management, due process, supplemental programs. Addresses competencies required under MN AR 3512 for administrative licensure Grad students working on K-12 Administrative Licensure and/or Master in Education (Leadership in Education) prereqs: OLPD 5385 Licensure Seminar: Program Policies and Inclusionary Leadership or concurrent registration and OLPD 5386 Leadership Portfolio or concurrent registration.
OLPD 5375 - Special Education Finance: Program Models, Policy, and Law
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered: Every Summer
How special education revenue is a resource to accomplish student-related objectives. Revenue sources, compliance, budget monitoring. Key policy, case law, program models from perspective of director of special education. prereq: Grad students working on K-12 Administrative Licensure and/or Master in Education (Leadership in Education)
OLPD 5321 - The Principal as Leader of High-Performing Schools
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Theory and practice for educational leadership that is specifically applied to the principalship. Overview competencies in AR 3512 required for MN K-12 principal licensure. Examines roles of the principal as a leader and manager. prereqs: OLPD 5385 Licensure Seminar: Program Policies and Inclusionary Leadership or concurrent registration and OLPD 5386 Leadership Portfolio or concurrent registration.
OLPD 5388 - Leadership for Master(ful) Scheduling
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer
Work of high-performing professional learning communities. Implications for moving from building master schedule to leadership for master(ful) scheduling of time, space, motion, people. Addresses competencies required under MN AR 3512 for administrative licensure. prereqs: OLPD 5385 Licensure Seminar: Program Policies and Inclusionary Leadership or concurrent registration and OLPD 5386 Leadership Portfolio or concurrent registration.
OLPD 5322 - Leaders in the Superintendency and Central Office
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer
Role/responsibility of superintendent in school district. Real life experiences, leadership potential as CEO. Purposes, power, politics, practices of position. Interplay of internal school forces, community forces. Leadership in public, high-profile appointment. Addresses competencies required under MN AR 3512 for administrative licensure. Grad students working on K-12 Administrative Licensure, MA, MED or PHD prereqs: OLPD 5385 Licensure Seminar: Program Policies and Inclusionary Leadership or concurrent registration and OLPD 5386 Leadership Portfolio or concurrent registration.
OLPD 5376 - Leading School Tax Elections
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: S-N or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer
Comprehensive planning model for conducting school tax elections. Emphasizes systems, strategies, and campaign tactics.