The Leadership for Educational Organizations MA concentration area in Early Childhood Education was developed for alumni of the Buell Early Childhood Leadership Certificate and serves to prepare leaders for positions in early childhood education. Buell alumni will utilize 15 of the graduate-level ECED credits earned as part of the Buell Early Childhood Leadership Certificate to this master’s degree, and will complete an additional 15 credit hours to obtain the LEOS MA: Early Childhood Education degree. The content of this concentration focuses on leadership for equity and social justice.​

This 30 credit hour degree is designed to be completed in approximately one year after completion of the one year Buell Early Childhood Leadership Certificate program. Curriculum focuses on leadership for equity and social justice and consists of an additional 15 credit hours of coursework as follows:

Leadership Core (12 semester hours):

EDUC 5651 - Foundations of Leadership  

EDUC 5652 - Leadership for Equity/Social Justice  

EDUC 5653 - Leadership Practices for Responsive Change  

EDUC 5654 - Leadership Practice Capstone  

Research Methods (Choose one 3 semester hour course from options below):

RSEM 5100 - Basic Statistics  (recommended if you have never taken a statistics course)

RSEM 5110 - Introduction to Measurement  

RSEM 5120 - Introduction to Research Methods