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Education leaders, within public and private educational environments or within NGO or corporate environments, should understand the structures for managing the school and/or organizational environment. These structures include strategic planning, organizational visioning and action planning, budgeting and finance, and the leadership skills that incorporate instructional design, curriculum integration with standards, and logistics of technology implementation, professional development, and evaluation. This course is designed to introduce data-driven decision-making as viewed through the elements of strategy, the salient knowledge management concepts relating to strategy and tactics, and an in-depth focus on how decisions are made in high-functioning organizations. Participants will develop an understanding of how to create and support change through a systems approach. Participants also will be introduced to wicked problem theory and why intractable issues are controversial and hard to address or resolve in public discourse. This will include the paradox of how humans perceive statistics, probabilities and decision action, including the effects of lag time in results and how this challenges decision accuracy.