Education Progressive Leadership for Labor - National Louis University

Education Progressive Leadership for Labor from National Louis University is a Campus Master Labor Studies degree that prepares you for a Business career. Program Description: The Progressive Leadership for Labor in Education (PLLE) program is a new degree program which is rooted in a strong belief that teachers? unions are critical to educational reform and to the professionalizing of teaching. The program provides candidates with the theory, knowledge, skills and dispositions necessary to become the next generation of education union leaders as voices for quality education, powerful teaching, good schools and principled relationships. The M.Ed./C.A.S. program will focus on four core curricular areas: leadership, labor, systems, and teaching and learning. Candidates will engage, simultaneously, in coursework and site-based internships that allow for in-depth practice and application of core area concepts. PLLE provides a solid academic and practical foundation so that graduates are able to implement principles of progressive unionism in their schools, districts, and regions. Teachers, teacher leaders, building representatives, district union presidents and officers, educational reformers and change agents, aspiring union leaders, building principals and school district administrators (particularly human resources or finance directors) are encouraged to apply. How You Will Learn: The program will be conducted in a cohort model?20 progressive leaders moving through two-year program together. The ?blended? model will combine face-to-face weekend meetings (approximately every four to six weeks throughout the program) with regular online sessions. The program coursework will be integrated with a program-long internship, a structured experience that will allow program candidates to practice new leadership strategies at the local level. View more details on National Louis University . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Labor Studies courses.