Frequency Part time
Format Online
Completion Time 1 to 3 years
Credits 15

This program is for directors, heads of schools, principals, and other leadership-minded professionals currently employed in a K–12 independent school. Graduates enhance and refine their skills in management, supervision, strategic planning, conflict management, and fundraising to become more effective educational leaders.

Participants also learn to work with faculty, students, staff, parents, and communities of diverse cultures and socioeconomic status. Students in the certificate program earn 15 graduate credits.

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Core Faculty

  • Annette Campbell Anderson, PhD

    Assistant Professor
    Deputy Director, Center for Safe and Healthy Schools
    Faculty Lead, School Administration and Supervision Programs
    Curriculum Director, Johns Hopkins HEAT Corps

    Affiliation

    Center for Safe and Healthy Schools, Innovative Teaching & Leadership

    Expertise

    Administration, Organization & Leadership, Education Policy & Politics

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Program Overview

The Graduate Certificate in Educational Leadership for Independent Schools program is for directors, heads of schools, principals, and other leadership-minded professionals who manage independent schools. Candidates must be educational professionals employed in a K–12 independent school.

Graduates refine their management skills, including supervising personnel, strategic planning, conflict management, and fundraising. They gain a deeper understanding of school budgets to support faculty and staff in meeting instructional goals, as well as the general principles of budget development, and strategies for communicating budgetary issues to various stakeholders, including boards of directors, families, and staff.

Candidates apply policy and laws to emerging issues, gain proficiency in technology for instruction and administration, and grow to be effective mentors and supervisors of faculty and staff. Participants also learn to work with faculty, students, staff, parents, and communities of diverse cultures and socioeconomic status. Students in the certificate program earn 15 graduate credits.

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