Post-Master’s Certificate
in Educational Leadership
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Overview
In today’s learning environments, educators are constantly being called upon to assess, improve, justify, and guarantee their instruction and institutions. This post-master’s certificate builds on your skills and experiences to support your continued development as an educational leader. You’ll explore organizational leadership from a broad perspective before investigating educational leadership more specifically. Coursework and exercises will include evidence-based decision-making, instructional technology integration, and applying principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Admission Requirements
A conferred master’s level or higher degree from a regionally or nationally accredited academic institution.
Courses
For the Post-Master’s Certificate in Educational Leadership, you must complete 6 courses (18 credit hours). The estimated time needed to complete this certificate is 13 months.
Course Details
Course Listings
In this course, you’ll explore classic and contemporary approaches to organizational development from a leadership perspective. Major emphasis will be placed on theories, strategies, and leadership styles relative to implementing organizational growth. As you progress, you’ll address various organizational concepts leading to the development of your own organizational leadership plan.
This course examines the theories, philosophies, and professional standards related to educational leadership. You’ll also study diversity, equity, and inclusion in the context of school leadership. By the end of the course, you’ll develop a personal leadership approach and promote ethical behavior and decision-making in order to become an effective leader within your particular educational setting.
An exploration of evidence-based decision-making in leadership to facilitate school and district performance. Utilizing authentic situations, you’ll analyze techniques to identify valid evidence and make informed decisions. You’ll also examine how to effectively collaborate with major stakeholders within the context of evidence-based decision-making.
Gain an understanding of and the relationships between educational policy, leadership, and research. You’ll explore examples of effective educational policy, leadership theory, and research, and you’ll study how these disciplines can be effectively employed together. Finally, you’ll analyze various seminal educational policies, effective leadership qualities and practices, and research approaches that facilitate school performance.
Because today’s learners differ in gender, sexual orientation, age, cultural background, experiences, and abilities, today’s educators must be able to appraise, assess, and argue the best means to reach such a variety. In this course, you’ll explore different means to address the nature of cultural diversity, its sources, and its importance to educators. You’ll also consider how districts can plan and prepare to meet the needs of diverse students, taking into consideration epistemological and axiological perspectives unique to many cultures.
As the use of technology by students continues to grow as a preferred method for instruction and interaction, educational leaders need to ensure that teachers effectively integrate technological advances to facilitate student achievement. Course topics include understanding technology integration trends, support for teachers as they integrate technology into their instruction, developing criteria to evaluate technology integration, and supporting parents with technology integration for home learning.
Learning Outcomes
If you’ve earned your Master of Arts in Education degree, then our post-master’s certificate may move you past the head of the class. NU’s Post-Master’s Certificate in Educational Leadership is designed to help you focus and develop your skill sets and knowledge in a particular area of education beyond the master’s level, without the need for a doctoral commitment or dissertation. You’ll not only enhance your understanding of major theories and practices in your specialty, but you’ll be challenged to think critically about the topics covered with the goal of applying what you learn to your professional objectives—all while gaining a wealth of experience from your mentoring professors.
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