Program Description

CCLE Undergraduate Collaborative Leadership Program Pilot - DRAFT

Overview: The UWEC Collaborative Leadership Program provides a challenge to students who in addition to their teacher certification desire to understand and pursue leadership roles in today’s schools. The program is designed to awaken students’ highest capacities through a year-long series of planned experiences that cultivate leadership aptitudes and widen participants’ perspective on their professional development goals. The emphasis and content in the program is guided by collaborative organizational forms that provide an alternative to the tradition of hierarchical management in schools and classrooms. This emphasis strengthens understanding of and commitment to diverse representation and shared ideals among and across students, faculty, staff and global citizenry. The program is coordinated through the Center for Collaborative Leadership in Education. Students will be engaged as co-designers of the program throughout its development.

Collaborative Leadership Goals:

• To understand the current theories, research, models, and practices of collaborative leadership.
• To understand leadership styles and decision-making practices that compliment their interests and aptitudes at levels ranging from classroom to global involvement.
• To critically observe a range of schools with diverse demographics and define issues that can be addressed by collaborative leadership.
• To examine what is required to develop a shared vision that invites trust and inspires confidence, and cultivate the human conditions that allow imagination, inspiration, and intuition to work among all decision makers.
• To identify personal/professional strengths and designing a realistic professional development plan for leadership roles in the public sector.

Students:

• Frosh identified as Education and Human Science majors via Undergraduate Leadership Seminar rosters from UWEC’s Summer leadership program
• CEHS students in Jr. (and Sr. year) (student organization leaders, distinctive students identified by faculty and self-nominating students)

CCLE UG pilot program activities (to be programmed over 2-4 years depending on student year in college)

3 Professional Seminar meetings per semester (speakers, panels, exercises, CL theory and content)

• Educational Leadership Tour of Wisconsin (A 3-day tour of professional educational and Human science settings in selected areas of Wisconsin)
• Participation in national leadership conference
• Participation in CCLE UG program development
• Co-planning and hosting of Mogensen Lecture and Celebration of Teaching Week.
• Completion of one of the following:

• One School of Business Leadership Certification course
• Classes that emphasize and provide active involvement in collaborative leadership (e.g., FED 490, etc.)
• membership and participation in campus organization (e.g., Peer Diversity, student senate, etc.)
• Honors Course in related area

Projected Graduate Distinctions:

• Transcript designation
• Formal Certification
• Medallion
• College Ambassadorships