Teacher Leadership in TESOL Certificate

The Teacher Leadership in TESOL Graduate Certificate is for English language teachers who are interested in advancing their leadership skills. Topics covered in the program include:

• Immigration pathways
• Sociopolitical issues that impact multilingual learners
• Current immigration and education policy
• Approaches to advocacy at the school, district, state, and national levels
• Strategic planning for system-wide change
• Promising practices in teacher professional development
• Skill-building in non-evaluative peer instructional coaching
• Fundamentals of distributed leadership - learning to work alongside school administrators to contribute a TESOL lens to decision-making

Made up of 10 credits, this certificate can be stacked into other programs such as the MATESOL, MAT, MAEd and EdD. Students can begin in the fall or summer.