Certificate in School Management and Leadership

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CSML OVERVIEW The Certificate in School Management and Leadership (CSML), a multi-course certificate program for preK-12 school leaders, is an innovative collaboration between the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) and Harvard Business School (HBS). Bridging the fields of business and education, CSML integrates expertise in managing teams and organizations with best practices in school and instructional leadership, to provide school leaders with frameworks, skills, and knowledge to effectively lead and drive change improvement in schools.

The CSML certificate will be comprised of the following four courses, which can be taken independently or completed together in any order to earn a comprehensive certificate: • Leading Change • Leading Schools

• Leading People • Leading Learning

WHO SHOULD PARTICIPATE CSML is designed for school leaders who are looking to deepen their knowledge of leadership and management in schools.

Specifically: • E arly-career and experienced school leaders, including teacher leaders responsible for supporting and managing teams of teachers or other school staff • District, charter, faith-based, and independent school leaders • School, district, or school management leadership teams

COURSE EXPERIENCE Hosted on the innovative HBS Online platform, CSML courses are entirely virtual, highly interactive, and case-based. Course participants: • E ngage in case-based learning with HGSE and HBS faculty on topics that include education, business, and policy • W atch virtual case studies featuring leaders from a representative cross-section of U.S. schools and businesses, and analyze the leaders’ experiences, insights, and best practices • E ngage in interactive activities to learn and network with a diverse group of participants who hold school leadership positions worldwide • R eflect on their practice, knowledge, skills, and understandings — and identify opportunities to apply course learnings to their unique context • G ain first hand experience with the case-based and inductive learning model • L earn in a flexible, online platform that creates a powerful peer-to-peer learning experience adapted to fit school leaders’ busy schedules

ABOUT CSML COURSES Leading Change Leading Change is designed to equip school leaders with the skills they need to drive school change and help diverse stakeholders establish priorities and improve practice.

CSML FACULTY CO-CHAIRS Mary Grassa O’Neill Senior Lecturer on Education; Faculty Director, School Leadership, HGSE

Leading Schools Leading Schools is designed to equip school leaders with the skills they need to identify existing challenges, incorporate and support innovation, and take a strategic problem-solving approach to planning and driving school improvement.

Allen Grossman Senior Fellow, HBS

For more information about each CSML course, visit www.csml.gse.harvard.edu

UPCOMING CSML COURSE SCHEDULE July 10 – August 7, 2019 Application Deadline: June 28, 2019 • L eading Change (last offering of Leading Change at the special introductory tuition rate of $399) October 16 – November 13, 2019 Application Deadline: October 4, 2019 • Leading Change • L eading Schools The remaining courses — Leading People and Leading Learning — are in development.

LEADING CHANGE FACULTY Ronald Heifetz King Hussein Bin Talal Senior Lecturer in Public Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School Katherine K. Merseth Adjunct Lecturer on Education, HGSE Irvin Leon Scott Senior Lecturer on Education, HGSE LEADING SCHOOLS FACULTY Pamela Mason Senior Faculty on Education; Faculty Director of the Language and Literacy Master’s program, HGSE Michael Tushman Professor of Business Administration, HBS

“ The most significant improvement that has resulted from my work in the CSML is the total comprehension of what it takes to be a true leader; the running of a business has many parts, its ripeness, its adaptive challenges, but more importantly, that leadership is a practice, and authority does not always have to lead.”

Kristine Douglas, Head of School, Ellington Preparatory Academy of Arts and Sciences Charter School

Apply today for CSML at www.csml.gse.harvard.edu. For additional information, contact our admissions team at ppe@gse.harvard.edu or 800-545-1849.