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The Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program for Educational Leaders (IDPEL) is a radical departure from traditional leadership teaching methodologies. IDPEL embodies a teaching experience in which the program itself provides models of the very leadership skills, traits, and methodologies that the participants are encouraged to study and emulate. It is a program that boldly attempts to put best leadership theories into practice--in the operations of the program itself. Indeed, leadership is best taught through a combination of theoretical inquiry and research, practical application of the concepts studied in the "real world," and modeling of best practices in a laboratory setting. In this leadership laboratory, the issues with which IDPEL community members grapple are real and very important--they deal with the structure, function, and composition of the doctoral program itself, and with three essential aspects of leadership.

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Practicing What We Teach at Duquesne: A Laboratory for Leadership

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