K-12 Education Leadership (Ph.D.)

The Ph.D. in Education program produces leaders who can address the nation's most pressing educational challenges. Each of the specializations is designed to match your professional interests and meet the needs of your organization. In fact, it requires educators to come to the program with defined learning goals and challenges them to design their own program of study. The program combines collaborative online study with self-paced, faculty-guided research modules and face-to-face residencies.

Second only to the impending teacher shortage in America is the developing shortage of educational leadership at school, district, and state levels. Walden's K-12 specialization provides a much-needed new model for advanced study in the field of educational leadership.

A highly flexible, student-centered curriculum is designed to create local, regional, and state educational leaders who can relate to diverse, multicultural K-12 and community-based school populations.

Career professionals in education who work, or wish to work, in leadership and policy development at the building, district, regional, or state level will find the specialization particularly suited to their needs for advanced study. Positions include principal, assistant principal, superintendent, CEO, and faculty member.