This curriculum module focuses on helping school leaders obtain a broader understanding of how to create better educational environments for students with disabilities. According to the U.S. Department of Education, nearly 6 million children currently receive special education services in secondary schools. A series of curriculum activities will provide school leaders the opportunity to critically examine and discuss the broader context of leadership for social justice and inclusive schooling for students with disabilities. This module will also examine the major special education laws as well as recent case law impacting the education of students with disabilities.

This instructional module introduces students to a variety of organizational assessment tools designed to inform leaders about issues of justice in their organizations. The module is appropriate for a variety of foundations courses or introductory quantitative methods or statistics classes tailored for school and instructional leaders. The module includes presentation materials designed to review core concepts in survey methods, issues of reliability and validity, and item scaling. The module introduces students to a series of survey instruments designed to assess procedural and distributive justice issues in organizations, including general procedural fairness, performance feedback, promotion issues, the solving of work-related problems, input and involvement in decision making. The module contains background readings appropriate for the examination of distributive justice generally, and as applied to the preparation of educational leaders.