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Educational Leadership Opportunities in K-12 Urban City Schools

This paper intends to show that the best educational leadership can provide to individuals is to provide students with the skills they need to skillfully and successfully cope with "today" and upon doing so to be secure in the knowledge that the tomorrows and the future will follow. This paper will research, explore and examine the options that present themselves to today's graduate student with a Master of Education K-12 Leadership in the urban city school setting.

According to Elliot W. Eisner:

The unknowable future is not a sound basis on which to plan curriculum."

Eisner that upon first contemplating the creation of a curriculum that will prepare students for the future seems to be a task that is unachievable because the future world is something we see through a "glass but darkly" concerning the future. However, as Eisner points out no one escaped while growing up the hearing of that old familiar refrain of: "but someday you will need to know this." Indeed this is the future for some and clearly no one envisioned this future. Eisner states quite wisely that:

we can best prepare students for the future by enabling them to deal effectively with the present."

Eisner can be commended for clarity in his thought as it is true that "today" is that which the individual possess...

The questions of "where do I belong in this education system?" "How can I measure up?" are dominant at this time as the learner becomes the teacher and enters the league of aspiring professionals and the workforce. The purpose of this paper is to explore the most pressing issues faced as well as the most promising opportunities available for the individual who has completed their Masters
Degree in Education K-12 Leadership and seeks employment in an urban school setting specifically in California.

Expert testimony of Thomas Sobol, Ed.D, since 1995, the Christian A. Johnson Professor of Outstanding Educational Practice at Teacher's College, Columbia University. Sobol, a well seasoned having served for 16 years a Superintendent of Schools in Scarsdale, New York and an English Teacher for 12 years in Massachusetts and New York public schools. Also, serving…

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Eisner, Elliot W. (2003) Educational Leadership "Preparing for Today and Tomorrow" [Online] available at http://www.ascd.org/cms/objectlib/ascdframeset/index.cfm?publication = http://www.ascd.org/publications/ed_lead/200312/eisner.html

Deposition of Thomas Sobolo Ed.D http://www.mofo.com/decentschools/expert_reports/sobol_report.pdf

Deposition of Jeannie Oakes, Ph.D

Eisner, Elliot W. (2003) Educational Leadership "Preparing for Today and Tomorrow" http://www.mofo.com/decentschools/expert_reports/sobol_report.pdf
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