{"id":269,"date":"2018-11-16T21:07:35","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T21:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wcsu.wpengine.com\/education\/graduate-2\/default-2\/focus\/"},"modified":"2019-02-06T18:48:37","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T18:48:37","slug":"focus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/education\/graduate\/edd-old\/focus\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<p><b><\/b>The EdD in Instructional Leadership at WestConn has three major components:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"bullets\">\n<li><strong>Leadership Theory and Foundation. <\/strong>In one of our first courses of the program, students participate in a leadership exercise and construct an individualized Leadership Development Plan with a faculty advisor. This plan acts as a blueprint for the acquisition and enrichment of leadership behaviors and skills. Additionally, students develop individual, group, and organizational competencies through planned study in these areas.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Area of Specialization in Curriculum and Instruction. <\/strong>Students investigate cognitive-developmental theories and data-based strategies to design and modify classroom curricula as well as to create professional development experiences in schools.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Inquiry Strategies and Dissertation Sequence. <\/strong>Doctoral students interpret and apply a full complement of in-depth research strategies to educational settings. Students develop skill and knowledge in the areas of evaluation, interpretation, and research implementation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EdD in Instructional Leadership at WestConn has three major components: Leadership Theory and Foundation. In one of our first courses of the program, students participate in a leadership exercise and construct an individualized Leadership Development Plan with a faculty &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":824,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"left-navigation.php","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-269","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/269\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}