Date of Award

Spring 3-31-2025

Document Type

Abstract

Degree Name

Doctor of Strategic Leadership (DSL)

Department

Organizational Leadership

First Advisor

Dr. Emile Hawkins

Second Advisor

Dr. Katrina Hutchins

Abstract

Project Type

Educational Leadership

Project Overview

The project is a workshop/seminar with four components or sections: ESSA subgroups and factors of ethics and adaptivity, Ethical leadership and its applications in education, adaptive leadership and its applications in education, and combining ethical and adaptive leadership strategies to improve and increase ESSA Subgroup data outcomes. The project will include a workshop with educational leaders to help them understand and define strategies to support teacher training and practice in schools. The seminar encompasses both the initial and closing sections, featuring engaging self-assessments, data, and a focus on the organizational change in education. A follow-up assignment with the OCAI and the data contributing to defining a practical and systematic process for achieving sustainable solutions in improving ESSA subgroup outcomes.

Project Themes

The introduction explains what the ESSA law is, the data that informed its creation, and the timeline of its passage. The first session presents the need for adaptivity and ethicality in educational leadership for defining more interventions and creativity in approaching the writing of the state student achievement assessments for all subcultures. The second session focuses on teaching the tenets of adaptive leadership and ethical leadership and then linking these concepts to professional development directed by educational leaders. The third session links teamwork and intercultural sensitivity to adaptability and ethics in leadership missions, core values, conflict resolution, and decision-making. The final session culminates in the assessment of data. The follow-up assessment enables the evaluation of teams and the organizational system to implement the tenets of adaptivity and ethics, thereby enhancing the process into a sustainable system of equitable application and practice.

Contributions to the Field of Leadership

Adaptivity and ethicality in educational leadership contribute to a process of defining issues, generating and innovating ideas, and resolving conflicts related to data and performance.

Real-world Implications

The seminar can be utilized in transformational regions or thriving areas to apply the steps of adaptive leadership, including ethical considerations, to create SMART goals and action plans that improve ESSA subgroup data or overall data within the educational organization.

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