Educational Leadership (Principalship), MEd

The Master of Education in Educational Leadership is a standards-based leadership program that prepares you to become an administrator or teacher leader in a K–12 setting, with a deep commitment to providing excellent and equitable educational opportunities for all students. Learn to facilitate school-level, systemic change; create and sustain a culture of innovation and collaboration; successfully lead curriculum development; interpret and use data to support student success; and provide effective feedback, support, and evaluation for teachers as you build a community network of support for your students and school.

This degree prepares you for a career as a:

Principal

Assistant principal

School administrator

We offer two formats for you to earn this degree. Both options are designed to prepare you to meet Arizona requirements for a principal certification.

For both options, you must be employed in a school-based position or have access to an approved school placement that will serve as your laboratory of practice.

Hybrid (on-campus and online)

This is an accelerated format that blends intensive seminars, campus-based courses, school site visits, and online classes in a cohort model. During the school year, you will complete a two-semester school-based internship with a certified principal who serves as a mentor for all field experiences. As part of your internship, you will plan, research, implement and evaluate an action research project to solve a problem of practice in your internship placement school. You will also regularly meet with leadership coaches (retired principals and superintendents) and district representatives throughout the program.

Online

This two-year pathway allows you to complete your coursework 100% online and gain the field experiences required to attain principal certification. You will complete a two-semester school-based internship with a certified practising principal who serves as a mentor for all field experiences. You will also plan, research, implement and evaluate an action research project to solve a problem of practice in your internship placement school.

Arizona State University Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College (ASU MLFTC) creates knowledge, mobilizes people, and takes action to improve education.

Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College faculty create knowledge by drawing from a wide range of academic disciplines to gain insight into important questions about the process of learning, the practice of teaching, and the effects of education policy.

Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College mobilizes people through bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree programs, through non-degree professional development programs, and socially embedded, multilateral community engagement.

Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College takes action by bringing people and ideas together to increase individual educators' capabilities and improve education systems' performance.

Principled Innovation is the core value that inspires all activities at Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College: our academic programs; our strategic initiatives; how we teach and learn, and how we engage with one another and with the communities we serve.

At Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, we want to push conversation and action about education beyond normal. In this blog, I and others affiliated with MLFTC share some of what we are doing and why we are doing it. We reflect on what we have learned and what continues to challenge us.