UW Master of Education in Education Policy

Описание: Education policy experts work at the forefront of change, tackling the most complex challenges facing education today. The intensive Master of Education in Education Policy (MEP) program at the University of Washington gives you the academic foundation and hands-on policy experience to become a successful leader in the field. Learn more at http://www.educationpolicy.uw.edu.

Video Transcript:

[Ramsey]
As a teacher I was working with you know 24 student in one class. The scope of what I was able to accomplish was really minimal. I wanted to be able to make an impact on a larger level.

[Aaron]
I always knew that I wanted to be involved in education policy at a higher level. I wanted to be able to forge a new path, and that was something that I saw an opportunity at the University of Washington.

[Annabel]
I worked my whole entire undergrad towards becoming an Attorney, specifically an Immigration Attorney. I experienced challenges, not having the right support system or not being able to identify with others in my environment. So I decided to return to Washington and seek a Masters in Education Program that would help me enforce and create new policies that could impact the student experience. I remember my first day in the classroom just feeling like I had found my home.

[Jolenta]
I work full time and I am a mother of two with a husband. Being able to take classes in the evening really allowed for me to work and provide for my family and then to relatively have some time to spend with my family. Having had 10 years of experience working directly with families and youth I would've been okay kind of maintaining the status quo. But, for me, I wanted to have more impact. And having gone through the program, I was able to then shift my career dramatically from doing direct service, working directly with students, to actually supporting those efforts through helping shape policy.

What's powerful about the MEP program is that you're entering into a community of change makers, of change agents. Of those that are really wanting to improve and impact the world in a very different way.

[Aaron]
We had a sense that we were not only going to take the theories that we took in the classroom and move them into the real world, but also once we got out into those positions, once we got into the system, we're going to keep doing the work keep having the types of conversations that we had when we were in the class, when we were with the cohort, in order to make that change on a much broader level.

[Ramsey]
I have this new way of thinking through problems, whether they be institutional, whether they be systemic, whether they be even just kind of a day to day problem. I think through things in a way that's less reactive. I think through things in a way that is way more focused on a solution. I think through all of the possible solutions, then kind of execute based on what ability we have to actually go through with something.

[Jolenta]
Being able to fully understand how policy is crafted, and then how it's implemented, is key. And I think MEP allows for kind of understanding how our systems are created to drive policy that's really impactful.

[Annabel]
I think what made this program powerful for me was it helped me build that education tool kit that I need to impact education and policies. The program did that immediately I walked away with a substantial amount of tools to be able to say, "Okay, I'm ready and I'm going to start here, and I'll end up in this policy role, maybe not immediately, but with time I'll be built correctly."

[Ramsey]
Going to MEP and, and going to the University of Washington has been such an amazing thing for my life. It's helped launch my career in a lot of ways, and it's given me the confidence and the authority to really execute things in a way that's systemically larger for a group of students that I care deeply about.