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Transformative School Leadership (EdD)

Create Positive Change in K-12 Schools

Now Accepting Applications Fall 2025.


Bay Path’s online EdD in Educational Leadership: Transformative School Leadership is a cutting-edge degree designed specifically for K-12 educators and related professionals, including classroom teachers, ABA professionals, school adjustment or mental health counselors, and school and district leaders who want to advance in their career or seek faculty positions to prepare the next generation of school leaders.


Our Transformative School Leadership Concentration includes:

  • 100% online coursework with annual campus-based immersion weekend (for 54 credit track students)
  • Accelerated and flexible schedule that allows for completion in 3 years or less
  • Highly personalized leadership development with faculty mentoring beginning day 1
  • Community of Practice that ensures close peer to peer relationship building and mutual support
  • Accomplished practitioner faculty who blend practice with theory and who care about your success
  • Applied Dissertation in Practice where you learn how to institute change
  • Small classes with ample opportunity for network building
  • Relevant coursework that is immediately applicable to one’s workplace

Three Tracks Available: 

  • Traditional 54-credit For students who have earned a master’s degree (in any discipline) from a regionally-accredited post-secondary institution of learning (a GPA of 3.0 or higher).  Can typically be completed in less than 3 years.  Requires an annual campus-based immersive weekend.
  • 36-credit EdS/CAGS Completion Option for students who have completed the EdS or CAGS degree in addition to a master’s degree at a regionally-accredited institution of higher learning.  Can typically be completed in 2 years.  Immersive weekend experience is not required.
  • 30-credit All But Dissertation (ABD) for students who have completed all requirements for a doctoral degree, with the exception of a dissertation at a regionally-accredited institution of higher learning.  Can typically be completed in less than 2 years.  Immersive weekend experience is not required.

Jenay Hall shares her experience with the 36-credit completion option.