This degree is premised on the belief that teachers can make a difference in their districts through personal, professional and community-level leadership. To help teachers achieve this goal, the graduate certificates in teacher leadership and the MA degree help educators develop reflective practices, content mastery and skill acquisition related to leadership in classrooms, schools and community contexts. Our working definition of teacher leadership reflects a simple vision: starting with the belief that teachers are agents of social change, who have powerful leadership capacity. We believe that teachers make a difference in the lives of children and families in a variety of contexts and by further developing leadership skills, teachers can impact classrooms and communities in transformational ways. These certificates as well as the MA in Teacher Leadership will help you to develop skills and tools to stay in the classroom with greater confidence, joy and content mastery.
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Our Philosophy
Each certificate is organized around the following assumptions about teachers as leaders:
We offer a supportive community and flexible coursework designed to accommodate busy teachers’ schedules. We know that teachers lead busy, fast-paced, often overworked professional lives, and we have built these certificates with input from educators to help meet teachers’ needs. The certificate content and curriculum directly relates to teachers’ everyday practices while translating into practical tools that teachers can use in their own classrooms, schools and communities.
The Teacher Leadership program is led and administered by the CU Boulder School of Education in with support from university and community partners.
For more information about all graduate programs in education at CU Boulder, visit colorado.edu/education/graduate-programs.