Adelphi University, Garden City, N.Y.
Program Title: Non-Credit Continuing
Education Course
Description: University College partnered with faculty members from the Ruth S. Ammon School of Education to offer a noncredit professional development program for K12 administrators. The program covers contract negotiations, human resources, board of education meetings and electronic records management. Upon completion, a noncredit certificate is given.
Format: Online and classroom
academics.adelphi.edu/universitycollege/noncred/schooladmin.php
Association for Supervision and
Curriculum Development, Alexandria, Va.
Description: Classes for administrators cover various topics, including contemporary school leadership, conflict resolution and effective leadership. Interactive, self-paced courses provide flexibility. Courses are up-to-date with instructional strategies and learning theories and include video and audio clips, tips from experts and actual classroom examples, as well as instructional strategies and learning theories.
Format: Online
www.ascd.org/professional_development/PD_Online_Courses.aspx
The Broad Foundation, Los Angeles, Calif.
Program Title: The Broad Superintendents
Academy
Description: Prepares executives who have successfully led large organizations and have a passion for public service and places them in urban districts to dramatically improve the quality of education. Operates like an executive training program. Participants attend weekend sessions over 10 months while continuing to work in their current jobs. Sessions cover CEO-level skills and the best practices in education reform leadership.
Format: Weekend sessions
broadacademy.org/about/overview.html
Chapman University, Irvine, Calif.
Description: Professional development credits used for professional advancement. Offers follow-up seminars, independent study courses, and workshops for administrators.
Format: Online, workshops and conferences
College Board, New York, N.Y.
Program Titles: Building an AP Program: A Workshop for Administrators, Pre-AP Instructional Leadership Through AP Vertical Teams
Description: Workshops for K12 administrators touch on topics related to developing, managing, coaching and coordinating an AP program, pre-AP strategies, AP vertical teams, and the PSAT/NMSQT. Participants learn leadership and administrative techniques and tactics.
Format: Online and classroom
professionals.collegeboard.com/prof-dev/workshops/k-12
Columbia University, New York, N.Y.
Description: Provides professional development in integrating technology into the classroom for K12 technology coordinators, principals and superintendents. Includes a combination of essential hands-on and theoretical work and is designed to make use of new technologies.
Format: Online
ci.columbia.edu/ci/ecourses/education.html
Ed2Go
Offered through the University of Wisconsin, Black Hills State University, and North Dakota State University, among others
Program Titles: Leadership, Podcasts in
the Classroom
Description: Offers a range of highly interactive courses online and geared toward professional development. Courses are designed to help administrators improve professional skills as well as learn about new technology and processes.
Format: Online
EdTech Leaders Online, Newton, Mass.
Description: Offers high-quality online professional development workshops for K12 administrators focused on specific subject areas and grade levels. Standards-based, project-based workshops are kept up-to-date by leading experts in educational technology. They include six sessions and an online overview to learning.
Format: Online
www.edtechleaders.org/programs/workshops/catalog.asp
The Economics Center for Education and Research, Cincinnati, Ohio
Description: Provides professional development for K12 administrators, as well as courses and workshops for graduate credit through the University of Cincinnati or for noncredit participation. Educators obtain lesson plans, activities and cross-curricular content while enhancing instruction, planning and student performance.
Format: Classroom
www.economicscenter.org/educator/pd
Holyoke Community College,
Holyoke, Mass.
Program Titles: Understanding Aggression in the Classroom, Advanced Classroom Management
Description: Provides courses with Virtual Education Software for administrators consisting of interactive instruction on strategies for teaching students with special behavioral and learning needs. Courses allow K12 administrators to work on their own schedule, and independent study options exist.
Format: Online
www.hcc.edu/programs/noncredit.html
Northcentral University, Prescott
Valley, Ariz.
Program Titles: Non-Degree Studies,
Degree Programs
Description: Offers degree and nondegree programs through the School of Education and provides courses and degree specializations designed to meet the needs of education professionals.
Format: Online
www.ncu.edu/academics/welcome_from_
education.aspx
Northeastern University, Boston, Mass.
Program Title: Elementary and Secondary School Administration
Description: The Professional Development Program offers a range of programs and workshops, consulting services, graduate level courses and degrees to educators.
Format: Online and classroom
www.ace.neu.edu/pdp/about/about_programs
Nova Southeastern University, North Miami Beach, Fla.
Program Titles: Institutional Technology,
Distance Education
Description: The Fischler School of Education and Human Services provides programs in leadership, teaching and learning, human development and family studies, training and professional development, instructional technology and distance education, and communication sciences and disorders.
Format: Online and classroom
Penn State University, State College, Pa.
Description: The College of Education offers credit and noncredit courses for K12 administrators, principal licensing programs and professional development opportunities. The Law and Education Institute Conference aims to educate participants on prevalent legal issues.
Format: Classroom, conferences and workshops
www.ed.psu.edu/educ/pssc/professional-
development-opportunities
Scholastic RED, New York, N.Y.
Program Title: Developing Foundations for Early Childhood Success, High School Literacy
Description: Combination of online learning and site-based study groups that aim to improve classroom instruction and raise student achievement
Format: Online and classroom
teacher.scholastic.com/red/index.htm
Seton Hall University, South Orange, N.J.
Program Titles: Continuing Education,
Professional Studies
Description: The Division of Continuing Education and Professional Studies works with Seton Hall University’s colleges and schools to provide opportunities for working professionals to continue their education.
Format: Online and classroom
www.shu.edu/events/introducing-ceps.cfm
University of Alabama, Huntsville, Ala.
Description: The Department of Educator Programs designs, develops and conducts quality credit and noncredit professional development programs to meet in-service needs of K12 administrators and staff.
Format: Online and classroom
catalog.uah.edu/preview_entity.php?catoid=
1&ent_oid=66&bc=1
University of Maryland, Baltimore, Md.
Description: Continuing and Professional Studies department offers professional development programs for administrators.
Format: Online and classroom
University of Mississippi, Oxford, Miss.
Program Title: Professional Development for School Administrators
Description: The Instructional Coaching Institute is designed to help principals and school leaders learn to coach faculty members to embed standards-based education into systems and practices of their schools. Participants practice how to coach others in “learning how to learn” through relationships, collaboration and commitment, with a focus on increasing teaching effectiveness.
Format: Online and classroom
www.outreach.olemiss.edu/ProfDev/ili.html
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minn.
Program Title: Education Policy and
Administration
Description: Professional development courses ranging from licensing K12 administrators to become superintendents to courses for improving administrative skills. The administrative licensure program is designed to address the competencies the state requires for various licenses.
Format: Classroom
www.cehd.umn.edu/edpa/default.html
University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, Pa.
Program Titles: Principal Licensing,
Educational Leadership
Description: A comprehensive professional development and curricular enhancement program for pre-K12 educators.
Format: Workshops, conferences, online
and classroom
www.gse.upenn.edu/inphilly/leadership
University of Southern California, Rossier School of Education, Los Angeles, Calif.
Program Titles: School Business Management Certificate, Professional Preparation for
Reading, Differentiated Curriculum for Gifted and High-Ability Learners
Description: Provides programs designed to meet continuing learning needs of practitioners and academics, and in administration and leadership for all education fields. Content includes administration, leadership and educational psychology.
Format: Online and classroom
rossier.usc.edu/academic/prodev/k12leadership/index.html
University of Virginia, Richmond, Va.
Program Titles: Technology Leadership,
Adolescent Literacy
Description: The Center for K-12 Education at the University of Virginia School of Continuing and Professional Studies delivers courses, conferences, degree programs, endorsements, licensure programs and workshops. Courses and programs can be tailored to fit a school’s needs.
Format: Online, classroom and workshops
www.scps.virginia.edu/educators/educators.php
University of Washington, Seattle, Wash.
Program Titles: Principal Certification, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Custom-Designed Professional Development
Description: The Center for Educational Learning’s offerings are custom designed around the needs of principals and central office leaders through one-day or multiday sessions.
Format: Classroom and online
