Sixth-Year Certificate in Educational Leadership

Admissions Contact

Graduate Recruitment & Admissions
(860) 832-2350
graduateadmissions@ccsu.edu

Academic Contact

Maria Boeke Mongillo
Chair/Associate Professor
Educational Leadership & Instructional Technology
Henry Barnard Hall
20117
860.832.2133
maria.boeke.mongillo@ccsu.edu

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 flexibly offered in diverse delivery formats and include tailored experiences
  • Classes offered at times that meet the needs of working professionals.
  • An accelerated program of 16-18 credits that leads to 092 certification eligibility but not the full SYC degree may be available for students who hold another SYC or advanced degree.
  • 092 certification may be combined with our EdD program.
  • Financial aid is available
  • No GMAT/GRE required

Hybrid and Online Programs

Our SYC in educational leadership program offers students the flexibility to select courses that allow them to participate in a hybrid program of courses with face-to-face and online course sessions, or a fully online program experience.

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.