Professional Education

The Harvard Graduate School of Education has numerous opportunities for educators to expand their skills. Onsite and online, the programs are designed for teachers, principals, administrators, and policymakers.

Pre-K-12

The Harvard Graduate School of Education's Pre-K-12 professional education programs are crafted for a broad cross section of stakeholders: superintendents, principals, directors, coordinators, teachers, and those who shape or implement educational policy. The overarching focus of these programs is to increase an educator's capacity to improve learning outcomes for all children. Through a variety of learning techniques - case studies, lecture and discussion, and small groups - participants acquire new perspectives on leadership, deepen their repertoire of problem-solving skills, engage in personal reflection, and build lasting professional networks.

The Principals' Center

The Principal’s Center, which last year celebrated its 25th anniversary, provides aspiring and experienced school leaders from across the country and around the world with exemplary professional development to meet personal and professional goals. Based on the premise that school leaders significantly influence best practice, The Principals' Center provides opportunities for principals and school leaders to meet in stimulating and supportive settings to examine critical school improvement topics applicable to their work.

Harvard Institutes for Higher Education

For more than 35 years, the Harvard Institutes for Higher Education has been offering comprehensive professional development programs. More than 7,500 college and university leaders have participated in these institutes. HIHE's intensive, highly interactive programs provide the insights necessary for personal and institutional success. Designed for presidents, vice presidents, provosts, vice provosts, deans, directors, and department heads, each HIHE program addresses key issues facing administrators at specific stages in their careers.

WIDE World

WIDE World is a unique K-12 professional development program based at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Its innovative professional development solutions build on more than 30 years of cutting edge research and effective teaching practices of top educators around the world.

Change Leadership Group

The Change Leadership Group is a knowledge-development and capacity-building organization focused on effective strategies for school and district improvement. CLG has collaborated directly with top leadership teams of school districts, helping them develop capacities to address systemic obstacles to student performance.

Project Zero

Project Zero's mission is to understand and enhance learning, thinking, and creativity in the arts, as well as humanistic and scientific disciplines, at the individual and institutional levels.

Office of School Partnerships

In addition to providing professional development experiences with local area schools, the Office of School Partnerships administers the Conant Professional Development Fund, which supports educators from the Boston and Cambridge Public School districts in attending professional education programs at HGSE.