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Personal, professional and community-level leadership.
The Teacher Leadership program at CU Boulder provides you with two pathways to expand your knowledge and enhance your earning potential throughout your career: a master’s program and individual graduate certificates.
The program’s flexible online format allows you to engage in a way that fits both your career goals and your budget. Develop reflective practices, content mastery and skill acquisition related to leadership in classrooms, schools and community contexts.
This program provides you with the tools to:
Support all learners in your classroom,
Pivot your career or explore a new speciality,
Increase your career marketability,
Become a community leader who facilitates links between families and schools across linguistic, cultural and economic borders.
The flexibility you need to create the education you want.
The Teacher Leadership program is designed to meet the needs of professionals with different backgrounds and career objectives.
Fully Online Coursework
Learn on a schedule that works for you.
Stackable Certificates
Tailor your education to fit your goals.
Versatile Course Offerings
Relates to teachers' everyday practices.
Learn from the experts.
Benefit from the expertise of leaders in the field.
Educational opportunities to fit every career path.
No matter where you are in your career or where you are located, the Teacher Leadership program offers options for you to gain knowledge, skills and professional credentials to help you meet your personal and professional goals.
Choose the educational path that best fits your career and interests.
MA in Teacher Leadership
Complete three stackable online certificates through our term-based master’s program to customize your education to support your goals.
Standalone Certificates
Complete one or more self-paced certificates to expand your skills and capacities as a classroom teacher.
We offer graduate certificates in:
The Teacher and Social and Emotional Learning certificate provides you with requisite background knowledge, understanding and preparation to center social emotional learning to support your teaching and student learning.
The Teaching Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students certificate offers you an introduction to the history and current policies and laws that relate to emerging bilingual learners in Colorado public schools.
This certificate also meets the new universal state requirements for all teachers to demonstrate 45 hours of professional preparation to work with emergent bilingual students.
The Leading for Change in Science Assessment Practice certificate teaches you how to adapt, develop and pilot assessments that elicit students’ integrated understanding of disciplinary core ideas and crosscutting concepts. In addition, you will learn strategies for eliciting students' interests and discovering how students’ own identities can be leveraged in instruction.
The Cultivating Compassion and Dignity in Ourselves and Our Schools 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 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 Inclusive and Special Education certificate prepares you to be a leader in Inclusive and Special Education in your school and district 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.
The Designing for Learning: Inquiry-Based Pedagogy for K-12 Educators certificate introduces you 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 you can organize curriculum and pedagogy to create inquiry-based learning experiences with young people in schools.
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.
Become an impactful leader.
CU Boulder’s Teacher Leadership program is designed to meet teachers’ needs no matter where they are in their career.
We offer a supportive community and flexible coursework that is built to accommodate busy teachers’ schedules. The curriculum directly relates to teachers’ everyday practices all while providing practical tools that teachers can use in their own classrooms, schools and communities.
No matter your background, gain the knowledge and skills you need to make a difference in your district through personal, professional and community-level leadership.
CU Boulder supports educators.
CU Boulder’s Teacher Leadership program offers an innovative online approach to advancing your career. Our coursework threads reflective practices, content mastery and skill development throughout and is led by a small, collaborative group of nationally renowned faculty dedicated to preparing engaged educators, researchers, policymakers, and community leaders.