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Graduate Recruitment & Admissions

Academic Contacts

Ethan Heinen
Associate Professor
Educational Leadership & Instructional Technology
Henry Barnard Hall
20109
Maria Boeke Mongillo
Chair/Associate Professor
Educational Leadership & Instructional Technology
Henry Barnard Hall
20117

Sixth-Year Certificate in Educational Leadership

Central to Impacting Educational Change.

Central’s Sixth-Year Certificate in Educational Leadership prepares you to play an influential role as an administrator in a public or private school organization. A concentration in Special Education is available for those interested in special education administration.

Completing this program makes you eligible for certification as an intermediate administrator/ supervisor. Become a department chair, assistant principal, principal, or assistant superintendent.

Program Features

  • Starts every January, June, and August
  • 30-credit program
  • Classes offered on-campus, hybrid, online synchronous, and online asynchronous formats
  • Financial aid is available
  • No GMAT/GRE required

Did You Know?

Individuals who pursue advanced certification in Educational Leadership go on to careers as school administrators and leaders of educational organizations.

Source: Learn.org

Learning Outcomes

  1. Program completers understand and can demonstrate the capacity to evaluate, design, and implement high-quality curricula, the use of technology, and other services and supports for academic and non-academic student programs.
  2. Program completers understand and can demonstrate the capacity to collaboratively evaluate, design, and cultivate coherent systems of support, coaching, and professional development for educators, educational professionals, and school and district leaders, including themselves, that promote reflection, digital literacy, distributed leadership, data literacy, equity, improvement, and student success.
  3. Program completers understand and can demonstrate the capacity to design, implement, and evaluate a developmentally appropriate, accessible, and culturally responsive system of assessments and data collection, management, and analysis that support instructional improvement, equity, student learning and well-being, and instructional leadership.
  4. Program completers understand and demonstrate the capacity to design, implement, and evaluate district-wide use of coherent systems of curriculum, instruction, assessment, student services, technology, and instructional resources that support the needs of each student in the district.