Teaching and Leadership
Leadership Certification
We prepare school leaders through our Certificate of Advanced Study (C.A.S.) program in Educational Leadership. Through students’ active engagement, rigorous scholarship and dialogue, and close connections between the University and the field, we prepare candidates for schools where continuous learning and support for the learning of others is emphasized. We define as leaders those who make such learning possible.
Our program reflects these principles by requiring students to confront the demands of providing leadership for learning in both field and academic settings and by expecting them to integrate the insights afforded by each. We meet these objectives by cultivating closer connections between the university and the field, through active involvement of field leaders in the admissions, advising, instruction, and assessment processes, and through intensive involvement of students in a variety of forms of research, development, inquiry, and service in actual school settings.
Inherent in the design of our program is a definition of educational leadership exercised by teachers and other school professionals as well as administrators—a definition that requires our graduate students to grapple with a variety of theoretical and policy perspectives, and challenges them to identify and address the tensions inherent in different ways of understanding the purposes and processes of education
The C.A.S. program meets the academic requirements for New York State’s School Building Leader and School District Leader certificates. More information on the content and requirements of the C.A.S. Program in Educational Leadership can be found by clicking on the link.
For information about the Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) in Educational Leadership, see Doctoral Programs.