Teacher Leadership, Graduate Certificates
Become an impactful leader.
The Teacher Leadership program supports you in expanding your skills and capacities as a classroom teacher through career-relevant, focused certificates and coursework.
If you are not ready to commit to a master’s program or just need expertise in a particular topic, consider completing one or more of our graduate certificates.
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Career-relevant coursework for professional mastery
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Fully online, flexible courses paired with synchronous summer intensives
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The Teacher Leadership program is designed to provide you with the ultimate flexibility in how you gain the education you need.
- Are you a teacher looking to gain additional content area expertise?
- Are you interested in developing teaching tools related to designing for learning, student-centered practice or supporting bilingual learners?
- Are you are looking to refine your leadership skills related to classroom, grade level and school level practices?
If so, this program is for you! You can enroll in one or more stand-alone graduate certificates or stack any three certificates together to earn a master's degree in Teacher Leadership.
Master of Arts in Teacher Leadership
Complete three certificates of your choice from our program's seven graduate certificate options to earn a Master of Arts in Teacher Leadership from the CU Boulder School of Education, Colorado's top-ranked graduate school of education.
When enrolled in the master's program, you:
- take term-based, asynchronous courses over 16-week (fall & spring) or 10-week (summer) terms, and
- become eligible for federal financial aid.
Graduate Certificates
Make a difference in your classroom, school, and local community through expanding your skills and capacities as a classroom teacher.
Choose from seven certificates:
- The Teacher and Social and Emotional Learning
- Teaching Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students
- Leading for Change in Science Assessment Practice
- Cultivating Compassion and Dignity in Ourselves and Our Schools
- Inclusive and Special Education
- Designing for Learning: Inquiry-Based Pedagogy for K-12 Educators
- Teachers Leading Change
When enrolled in a certificate program, you take self-paced, asynchronous courses (known as "Online Flex" courses) that you can begin anytime and complete within a six-month window.