Adjunct Instructor - LEAD 510

Program: Early Childhood Leadership

Position Vacancy: Adjunct Instructor

Semester: Summer 2026

Course title: Leading Critical Issues in Curriculum and Instruction

Course number: LEAD 510

Credits: 3 credits

Day / Time: TBD

Modality: online

The Early Childhood Leadership program works with students to develop progressive justice-oriented leadership lens. Students are guided through curriculum that helps shape inclusive, and equitable learning environments for children, families, and educators. Students who complete our program will have strengthened leadership practices focused in the areas of supervision, management, and professional development. The Early Childhood Leadership program seeks to support future leaders in driving systemic change across early childhood and varied school settings.

Course Description:

This course focuses on the roles and functions of the school leader in the spheres of curriculum and instruction. It covers the principles and processes that inform curriculum development and their impact on student learning. By explicitly addressing the relationship between curriculum and instruction to critical theory and pedagogy, students will connect positionality to their professional noticing. At the same time, students will unpack educational equity to become discerning consumers and negotiators of curriculum. In this course, students will envision and conceptualize ways to ensure that all students experience a liberating curriculum by focusing intensively on the knowledge and tools needed to recognize and dismantle dehumanizing spaces that are emblematic of historic and contemporary systems and structures. Finally, the course explores critical issues in leadership in curriculum and instruction and is designed to connect theory to practice as a means of inspiring, guiding, and effecting school change.

Qualifications:

• Master's degree in leadership, preferred
• Successful previous experience with college / graduate school teaching, preferred
• Experience with school reform practices and action research, preferred
• 5 or more years of school leadership experience in early childhood settings, preferred
• Certification in school building leadership, preferred

Compensation: $4,593