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To earn the master's听degree, students will complete three graduate certificates. Each certificate blends together on-demand, self-paced online courses with a real-time capstone course held in the summer. These affordable certificates have been designed for educators looking to enhance their skills and capacities as classroom teachers and leaders and to make a difference in their schools and local communities. 麻豆淫院 can choose to take classes and separately complete certificates without enrolling in the full master's program.
Currently, we are offering the following graduate certificates in teacher leadership:听
Teacher and Social and Emotional Learning
The Teacher and Social and Emotional Learning certificate provides practicing teachers with requisite background knowledge, understanding and preparation so as to engage students in social and emotional learning. In order for teachers to enable students to become more aware and understanding of their own and others鈥� emotions, teachers need to understand their own emotions as well. The arena of social and emotional learning is a fairly new, growing and much needed public school curricular domain. During the last three decades, public schools have focused almost exclusively on cognitive academic outcomes. While some progress has been achieved, the consensus seems to be that a renewed emphasis on the whole student needs to be restored. At the same time, teachers鈥� professional work conditions have deteriorated. Teachers new to the field are leaving the profession at greater rates than in the past. Teacher 鈥渂urnout鈥� is a recognized and acknowledged public education phenomenon. This certificate will provide educators with resources and tools needed to center social emotional learning to support their teaching and student learning.听Faculty include Dan Liston and听Emily Gleason.
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Teaching Culturally/Linguistically Diverse 麻豆淫院
The certificate in Teaching Culturally/Linguistically Diverse 麻豆淫院 will offer teachers an introduction to the history and current policy/laws that relate to emerging bilingual learners in Colorado public schools. Teachers will learn about the process of language acquisition, develop skills and strategies to teach English and adapt their curriculum/instruction to the developing needs of emerging bilingual learners and learn key strategies for engaging diverse families in their school and classroom communities. This certificate will meet the new universal state requirements for all teachers to demonstrate 45 hours of professional preparation to work with emergent bilingual students. Faculty include听Deborah Palmer and听Sandra Butvilofsky.
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Leading for Change in Science Assessment Practice
In this certificate, teachers learn how to adapt, develop and pilot assessments that elicit students鈥� integrated understanding of disciplinary core ideas and crosscutting concepts. In addition, they learn strategies for eliciting students' interests and discovering how students鈥� own identities can be leveraged in instruction. Although course materials draw on iHub secondary biology materials, the certificate is open to teachers of all age ranges. At the conclusion of the Capstone experience, the cohort of teachers will have a suite of piloted assessments and scoring guides that they can use in their classrooms and share with others.听Faculty: Bill Penuel.
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Cultivating Compassion and Dignity in Ourselves and Our Schools
The four-course certificate explores the ways in which practices of compassion and a focus on the essential dignity of educators and students can contribute to the wellness of educators and schools. The certificate will prepare educators to lead efforts to promote compassion and dignity in schools. The certificate provides educators with supports and resources for caring for themselves and for cultivating and sustaining compassion for students, families, their school community, and colleagues. The courses prioritize ways in which educators can see and feel their own daily teaching practices, struggles, constraints, and joys reflected in the curriculum as well as the ways in which educators might become more compassionate teacher leaders. The compassion practices and skills embedded in the courses support district-level equity goals of creating safe and inclusive schools that challenge racism and promote justice. The certificate draws upon rigorous research, contemplative wisdom, and deeply embedded lived experience of educators. The certificate was co-designed by the Crown Institute and the Compassion Institute working in collaboration with teachers, counselors, and administrators.听Faculty: Sona Dimidjian, director of the Renee Crown Wellness Institute, Ashley Potvin and Bill Penuel.
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Scholarship Information
The Crown Institute, with the support of the Hemera Foundation, is offering 20 scholarships to educators to complete the听Cultivating Compassion and Dignity in Ourselves and Our Schools听certificate and to take part in a course evaluation. The deadline has closed. Stay tuned for future opportunities.听
Rethinking Inclusive and Special Education
This听certificate prepares educators to be leaders in Rethinking Inclusive and Special Education in their schools and districts by humanizing students with dis/abilities and the systems designed to support them, by gaining valuable knowledge about legal, historical and social precedents in special education, and by expanding their instructional toolkit. Educators will examine federal, state, and local policies and they will also learn practical strategies they can use to plan instruction and to support students in general education and intervention settings. Each course will draw upon culturally and linguistically appropriate practices that attend to the needs and strengths of all students, with an emphasis on creating equitable learning environments. Course content and assignments consider dis/ability to be one of multiple identities that makes each of us human, rather than a defect or problem in need of a cure. We use the term dis/ability, choosing purposefully to place a slash between dis and ability.听
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Designing for Learning: Inquiry-Based Pedagogy for K-12 Educators
Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings argues that instead of organizing curriculum and instruction around the question, 鈥淲hat do you want to be when you grow up?鈥�, 听we can go further in supporting young people in meaningful, culturally relevant and sustaining ways if we instead ask: 鈥淲hat problems do you want to solve?鈥� This certificate focuses on how to follow Ladson-Billings鈥� suggestion and re-organize our pedagogies around the questions and problems that youth and their communities want to pursue. Rather than approaching teaching as a process of transmitting information and skills to youth, this certificate helps teachers position youth as people whose questions, problems, and problem-solutions are inquiry-worthy. The certificate offers coursework that introduces teachers to research and theorizing about how people learn through inquiry, how communities engage in knowledge-building and inquiry within and across subject areas, and how teachers can organize curriculum and pedagogy to create inquiry-based learning experiences with young people in schools. The certificate culminates in a capstone experience positioning teachers as pedagogical leaders who can organize and sustain professional learning among peers and colleagues through practitioner inquiry into how young people learn when given the opportunity to pursue questions and problems that they want to solve.
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Teachers Leading Change
The Teachers Leading Change certificate focuses on understanding and developing leadership skills that enable teachers to engage effectively in shared leadership and proactively expand their sphere of influence in meaningful ways. A core tenet of the courses is that teachers start to or continue to see themselves as leaders, to effectively take on a leadership stance, and to do so in a way that feels authentic and builds on each teacher鈥檚 own histories and priorities for growth. The courses provide students with ideas and tools for leading change in a variety of educational spaces, including within district workshops and community networks.
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Enrollment for this certificate is open now!