Preparing Metacognitive Educational Leaders: How Placing Critical Thinking at the Heart of Our Program Is Transforming Our Students

Abstract

In this article the authors provide a roadmap on how they shifted a program in educational leadership to reflect the changes that are taking place in K-12 education. The article examines how one program responded to the impact of issues, like using data and the changing face of schools, by designing a program to produce leaders who are reflective thinkers able to lead schools and the people who serve children through problems that did not exist a decade ago. This process led the authors to a conclusion that they must nurture candidates to become metacognitive thinkers.