
- Provide leadership programming for in-service leader professional growth in support of human thriving
- Facilitate network improvement communities focused on organizing collaborative problem solving for school improvement
- Provide and/or facilitate collaborative leadership academies with school districts and community partners to build capacity for human thriving
- Support and maintain current leadership programs enrollment.
- With funding from OU-Tulsa and Norman, support the development and involvement of at least 2 affiliated EACS Ph.D. students in the work of the Center.
- Engage in market/community research as to the current needs state and local agencies regarding new principal preparation.
- Engage in community outreach and recruitment of prospective graduate students.
- Provide all doctoral students with yearly academic performance/progress to degree evaluations.
- Examine and improve EACS program curricula as needed to be responsive to the needs of EACS, OU, and/or the leadership community.
- Generate capacity reports for leaders operating in or working with our contracted school districts and community partners
- Engage in original, applied social science and/or policy research of consequence to local, state, national, or international interests
- Support and maintain our existing interactive on-line platform for the use of capacity reports by contracted clients and partners
- Maintain our annual targets for knowledge dissemination and scholarly production in the form of books, book chapters, policy reports, peer-reviewed journal articles, and conference and/or invited presentations.
- Maintain existing contractual and/or extramural obligations and secure new contracts.