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The big broad questions that are anchoring the Master of Arts in Community and Teacher
Leaders are what does it mean to be well-educated? And who gets to decide
what is worthwhile in terms of teaching and learning?
Master in Community and Teacher Leadership program is the brainchild of
one of our mentors, Dr. Kenneth Anderson. Our chair Brian Schultz and one of our
professors, Eleni Makris, took the lead on this program a couple of years
ago when we were trying to figure out how to come up with a program that
would be a great program ideal for nontraditional type of educators. This is
a program we envision really bridging this gap between teacher education and
community and school. What's really great about this program is that as an
institution that has come out of the Normal School's tradition and also has a
very unique mission for social justice and community involvement. This degree
perhaps more than others addresses crucial needs and both of those areas:
education and in the community. The intent of the program is to be able to
get students and leaders working with each other and talking with each other,
sharing their experiences, sharing their diverse backgrounds, to be able to really
help each other become stronger in their learning and in their application of
leadership skills.
This is a program that is specifically geared toward people that want to work
within the school system, want to connect within the community systems and
create a partnership and create meaningful social justice activity
and meaningful agency for students or parents and educators and community
activists.