Principal K-12 certification only, Post Master’s Certificate

Student Learning Outcomes

• Collaboratively lead, design, and implement a school mission, vision, and process for continuous improvement that reflects a core set of values and priorities that include data use, technology, equity, diversity, digital citizenship, and community (NELP Building Level Standard 1, 2018).
• Understand and demonstrate the capacity to advocate for ethical decisions and cultivate and enact professional norms (NELP Building Level Standard 2, 2018).
• Develop and maintain a supportive, equitable, culturally responsive, and inclusive school culture (NELP Building Level Standard 3).
• Evaluate, develop, and implement coherent systems of curriculum, instruction, data systems, supports, and assessment (NELP Building Level Standard 4, 2018).
• Engage families, community, and school personnel in order to strengthen student learning, support school improvement, and advocate for the needs of their school and community (NELP Building Level Standard 5, 2018).
• Improve management, communication, technology, school-level governance, and operation systems to develop and improve data-informed and equitable school resource plans and to apply laws, policies, and regulations (NELP Building Level Standard 6, 2018).
• Build the school’s professional capacity, engage staff in the development of a collaborative professional culture, and improve systems of staff supervision, evaluation, support, and professional learning (NELP Building Level Standard 7, 2018).
• Complete an internship under the supervision of knowledgeable, expert practitioners that engages candidates in multiple and diverse school settings and provides candidates with coherent, authentic, and sustained opportunities to synthesize and apply the knowledge and skills identified in NELP standards 1-7 in ways that approximate the full range of responsibilities required of building-level leaders and enable them to promote the current and future success and well-being of each student and adult in their school (NELP Building Level Standard 8, 2018).

Admissions Requirements

• Complete the online application.
• Pay the application fee.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Education and Certification in Education preferred.
• Master’s degree in education or related field required.
• Provide an official transcript verifying an earned baccalaureate degree and earned master’s degree from a regionally accredited institution of higher education with a GPA of 3.00 or higher (Students with a GPA below 3.00 may apply for conditional admission).
• Provide verification of three years of professional certificated service or three years of relevant professional experience in an educational setting that is related to the instructional process (as verified by PDE) prior to acceptance.
• Submit copy of professional certificate.
• A current resume or curriculum vitae.
• Complete the required writing sample answering the question, Why have you chosen to be an educational leader?
• If applicable, apply for the acceptance of transfer credit prior to the beginning of the program (when possible).
• At the completion of the program, the graduate student is required to pass the current PDE required PRAXIS assessment and make application for certification to PDE.
• The graduate student shall also submit the appropriate form to program coordinator indicating application for certification has been completed.

Curriculum Requirements

Required Advanced

• EDLR 6000 - Foundations of Educational Leadership Credit Hours: 3
• EDLR 6100 - Educational Leadership Theory and Practice Credit Hours: 3
• EDLR 6200 - Curriculum Leadership Credit Hours: 3
• EDLR 6300 - Legal Aspects of Educational Leadership Credit Hours: 3
• EDLR 6400 - School and Community Relations Credit Hours: 3
• EDLR 6500 - Instructional Leadership Credit Hours: 3
• EDLR 6600 - Elementary Principal Internship Credit Hours: 3
• EDLR 6700 - Secondary Principal Internship Credit Hours: 3

Total Number of Credits to Complete the Program: 24

Curriculum Requirements