Graduate Certificate - School Administration - Non-Licensure
Indiana Wesleyan University’s School Administration (Non-Licensure) Program is a post-master’s, non-licensure program. It is designed for licensed teachers who have a master’s degree and at least two years of teaching experience.
The 18 credit-hour certificate in School Administration identifies outcomes and expectations based on current school leadership principles and practices and enables interns to engage in inquiry, research, dialogue, team learning, reflection, problem-based learning, collaboration, and standards-based assessment from a comprehensive P–12 perspective. It aligns to the National Educational Leadership Preparation (NELP) program recognition standards on which our accreditation is based.
This program is open to candidates from all states and countries, and is not tied to state licensure. This could include teachers and leaders in the following schools: International schools, ACSI schools both stateside and overseas, Charter, and Private schools. This program may also appeal to traditional public-school teachers who only want a school leadership certificate, school leadership training, or continuing education, but have no interest in principal licensure.
Program Learning Outcomes
- Understand and be able to apply Christ-like leadership principles that build the spiritual foundation critical to the success of a world-changer.
- Demonstrate competency in the following School of Educational Leadership’s dispositional domains: Communication, Critical Thinking, Human Interaction, Leadership, and Professionalism.
- Demonstrate the ability to facilitate collaborative vision, mission, values, goals, and a culture of continuous improvement in the buildings they will lead to change the world.
- Demonstrate instructional leadership by understanding and promoting best practices in teaching, with an acute focus on student learning and academic success.
- Demonstrate the ability to leverage school operations, manage resources, and provide a safe learning environment to ensure the success of all students.
- Demonstrate the ability to build diverse relationships that engage parents and the community in the learning process and share resources for student success and for the benefit of all stakeholders.
- Model personal integrity, fairness, accountability, cultural responsiveness, and ethical/legal decision-making, and expect the same from staff and students.