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Professional Development
Build skills to help you become a more effective leader, coach, and mentor within your team or instructional department.
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All four modules run four times per year in June, October, January, and March.
The tuition for each ILC course is $399.
Groups of 10+: 25% off final invoice. Contact us for your discount code.
With the explosion of non-administrative leadership positions in schools in the past decade, schools and systems now understand how critical mentor teachers, instructional coaches, and leaders of instructional teams or departments are to supporting teacher development and student growth. Access to these instructional leadership roles - and support in fulfilling them - is also an important part of ensuring that the best teachers remain in their schools as leaders while continuing to teach.
Asking excellent teachers of students to support or oversee the professional growth of their teacher peers is not easy; there can be no assumption of a transfer of knowledge and skill from teaching students to supporting and developing colleagues. Effectively supporting expert classroom teachers in becoming powerful instructional leaders requires access to meaningful learning opportunities that address the complexities of leading teacher growth and development.
Participating in Instructional Leadership Certificate (ILC) coursework is an opportunity for teachers to distinguish themselves as teacher leaders who are knowledgeable and supportive resources in their professional communities. Becoming a member of the ILC cohort allows you to gain and contribute expertise through a series of courses designed to meld HGSE faculty expertise, the latest research, and the knowledge and insights of fellow practitioners.
“The case could be made that what teachers know of schools and of life in them, their purposes, their problems, their strengths, and how to make them better, is the most appropriate knowledge base for understanding this profession.” Eleanor R. Duckworth, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Professor of Education, Emerita
“The case could be made that what teachers know of schools and of life in them, their purposes, their problems, their strengths, and how to make them better, is the most appropriate knowledge base for understanding this profession.”
Eleanor R. Duckworth, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Professor of Education, Emerita
Noah Heller focuses on developing effective approaches to practice-based teacher education, teacher leadership and learning, and mathematics pedagogy.
This program welcomes registrations from both individuals and teams. First-time registrants need to create a Professional Education account to register.
Individuals: Click the "Register" button at the top of this page to log into your Professional Education account and access the registration page. Proceed with the individual form until submission. Invoices will be immediately available upon the submission of the form.
Teams:
Step 1: Designate one participant or an administrative staff member as the Coordinator.
Step 2: Upon the submission of the team application, all team members will receive an email notification with a link to their personal registration form. Team members should complete their forms promptly to access the program’s Community Group for updates and Canvas course access.
The Instructional Leadership Certificate (ILC) consists of four 6-week online courses designed to build capacity in those who serve or aspire to serve in instructional leadership roles, such as mentors, coaches, department chairs, grade-level leaders, and facilitators of professional development. All courses address three certificate throughlines: Advanced Instructional Excellence, Leading and Motivating Educators, and Aligning Purpose and Practice.
The courses are asynchronous via our Canvas learning platform and are divided into six one-week modules, which consist of three to four hours of work per week that include a practice challenge for participants to apply learning in their context. There are opportunities for individual reflection and application as well as peer feedback throughout the course, and participants will be awarded 20 PD clock hours upon completion of each course.
To earn the Instructional Leadership Certificate, participants must complete all four ILC courses. Articulating the Intangibles of Teaching is the recommended foundational course, though courses may be completed in any order across a flexible schedule.
Tuition assistance is available for the courses in this certificate on a need and application basis. Tuition assistance is granted based on participant and institutional needs. Requests for tuition assistance do not affect an applicant's prospects for admission. You may access the tuition assistance application after you have submitted your course application. Tuition assistance applications should be submitted at least one month prior to the final application deadline.
Starting in 2024, ILC course tuition will be adjusted to $399 per person per course. However, if you have already taken at least one ILC course before or in 2023, you will continue enjoying the price of $349 per person per course for all iterations during 2024 through the use of a discount code. The code will be shared with all eligible participants via email. If you are eligible and don’t have it, please contact us so we can send it to you again. Click here for instructions on how to apply the code.
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