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Mission of the Doctoral Program in Curriculum and Instruction:

To prepare scholarly practitioners to be innovative leaders who transform teaching and learning in their schools, districts, and other educational institutions.

The program Vision:

We aspire to equip curricular and instructional leaders with the knowledge and skills to bridge the gap between theory and practice that will enable them to shape the future of education and foster the student success for all learners.

The mission and vision inform our fundamental program guiding principles listed below:

• Principle 1: Framed around questions of equity, ethic of care, and social justice to develop evolving strategies and approaches to complex problems of practice.
• Principle 2: Preparing scholarly practitioners who can construct and apply knowledge to make a positive difference in the lives of individuals, families, organizations, and communities.
• Principle 3: Providing opportunities for practitioners to develop and demonstrate collaboration and communication skills to work with diverse communities and to build partnerships.
• Principle 4: Engaging practitioners in their context of practice in inquiry-based activities that use multiple perspectives to develop authentic, innovative, results-oriented solutions and/or outcomes.
• Principle 5: Grounded in and designed to develop professional knowledge that integrates practitioner and research-based knowledge that links theory with systemic and systematic inquiry.
• Principle 6: Preparing leaders to be scholarly practitioners and leaders in education who can generate, develop, apply, and transform knowledge and practice.