Submit an unofficial final degree bearing transcript for both your Bachelor's degree and Master's degree

Please note:  If admitted by the Department, you will be required to submit official final transcripts from all colleges and universities attended to Cal State East Bay's Office of Graduate Admission.  This includes all institutions before and after your bachelor's degree.  Do not send any transcripts to the Office of Graduate Admission unless instructed to do so.

Writing a short essay is part of the application process to the Educational Leadership for Social Justice (ELSJ) program. This essay is intended to assess your original writing from these perspectives:

   1. How you convey your view of education, schooling, and/or educational              leadership as a social justice endeavor,

   2. How you represent the issue and its causes that you discuss,

   3. How you identify and rationalize proposed changes,

   4. How you generally organize and articulate your thinking,

   5. How you generally formulate an argument and analysis with specificity,            and

   6. How you generally incorporate writing conventions

As part of submitting your application, please upload a double-spaced written response to the prompt listed below. Please be specific, provide examples from your own work or lived experience, and include citations/references where appropriate. Your response should be between 5 and 10 pages in length using 12 point font. Please do not exceed 10 pages.

Prompt:

Numerous research studies provide evidence that the structure of public education in the U.S. creates inequitable learning experiences,  exacerbates unwellness, recognizes and attends to limited aspects of the whole child, and prepares students to know where they fit within the unequal relations of power of the larger society.

Choose at least one of the identified issues above as the focus of your response and address these questions.

   1. How would you name the core problem and its root causes?   

   2. What is you analysis of some of the root causes?

   3. How might this/these issue(s) manifest in everyday practice?

   4. What can or should leaders in the field of education, whether PK-12                    schooling, higher education, or community-based organization do to                  counter this issue?

   5. In what ways do you see your pursuit of the Ed.D. in Educational                          Leadership as an avenue for you to contribute to needed changes,                      including your interests in possible dissertation research topics and your          role as a leader? 

Your resume/CV should document your leadership skills and abilities in education or a closely related field as well as your professional commitment to equity and social justice.  

Please ask three supervisors/managers/professional colleagues who are familiar with your work to complete and submit a recommendation form on your behalf.  Please provide your recommenders with this form. 

Your recommenders should email the completed form to 

If you work for a school district or the California State University system, please send your supervisor this form. 

Your supervisor should email the completed form directly to