Technology Leadership Certificate

Program Details

How is the Program structured?
The Program is structured with both face-to-face and online components that utilize leading collaborative technologies for learning and remote conferencing.

• Leadership Labs - The Leadership Labs are three face-to-face meetings at various points in the program. The Lab focuses on unpacking the standards and goal development. The cohort launches with a three-day Leadership Lab. This will be followed by one two-day lab at the mid-point of the program, and one two day lab at the end of the program (focused specifically on preparing for the future of learning in schools). The Labs are facilitated by on-site instructors, each with their own unique contributions.
• Online Self-Directed Learning - Innovative content that inspires and allows participants to pursue personalized goals within a flexible structure and timeline while continuing to move learners through milestones and assessments as a cohort.
• Personalized Coaching - Learners engage in a required number of coaching hours per course with the instructor to provide the greatest chances of success possible for the individual endeavors.

Who is the Technology Leadership Certificate designed for?

This Certificate is designed for current or aspiring technology leaders including, Directors of Technology, Directors of Innovation, Directors of Teaching and Learning who oversee technology integration, Technology Coordinators, and Integration Coaches who aspire to have leadership roles. This is an intensive Program for leaders who wish to grow themselves and their programs, and have recognized evidence for that growth. This Certificate is not a good fit for leaders who are not change oriented.

How will it help me in my career?
Job responsibilities and expectations are growing and changing fast as schools respond to emerging challenges. This is creating exciting and varied opportunities for leaders with the right training and dispositions. Our team of global influencers and leaders will help you enhance your career options by preparing you for leadership in these types of innovative roles and programs at the next level. Use our certificate as recognized currency in demonstrating that you are among the best technology leaders out there.

How will my school benefit?
Simply put, schools need better technology leaders. They need leaders who can inspire and effectively manage programs of innovation and change in areas that significantly impact students, teachers, and parents. These leaders must be able to successfully embed programs for digital literacy and citizenship competencies, and empower teachers and learners while balancing elements of control. Many tech leaders must, in addition to this, manage interdependent enterprise and learning systems while remaining vigilant in guarding against immediate security threats. They also need to keep an eye on the horizon to ensure future-readiness and sustainable systems.

What will I learn in the Program?

You will learn how to lead for growth, change, and sustainability in a dynamic environment with content structured around the refreshed framework of the ISTE Administrator Standards. Within these, you are guided towards mastery of the key capabilities and competencies desired by leading international independent schools. These learning outcomes include:

• Course 1 - Becoming a Change Agent - Learn the skills of adaptive leadership and management, innovative technology planning, communicating with clarity and coherence of purpose, designing and leading strategic conversations, and mastering diffusion of innovation and influencer methodologies.
• Course 2 - Becoming an Equity Champion - Evaluate and embed learner-centered, Digital-Age learning models, strategies and digital citizenship in your school’s curriculum. Evaluate and evolve your technology access model, policy assets, and crisis readiness to ensure equity and inclusion.
• Course 3 - Becoming an Empowering Leader - Develop immersive, personalized professional learning opportunities, instructional coaching for technology, and a culture of innovation at your school. Empower your team with good data and the skills to talk about it productively.
• Course 4 - Becoming a Systems Thinker - Apply systems thinking fundamentals to become a problem finder, improve existing technical and support systems, assess your technology integration, and improve interoperability of your learning technologies.
• Course 5 - Becoming a Connected Learner - Understand the technology horizon and learn how to assimilate innovative technologies in a sustainable manner. Adopt effective streams of information for consumption and curation and focus your energy in the most relevant space.

How do the instruction and coursework progress?
The Program will commence with the three-day Leadership Lab. This lab will yield most of the personalized goals that you will pursue throughout the program. Think of it as a blueprint for a technology plan. Courses 1-5 will begin immediately after this in sequential order. During each course, learners will actualize and operationalize the concepts and skills acquired during the Leadership Lab by applying and reflecting on real-world application of the material. Assessments are highly varied to capture learning evidence in the form of case studies, reflections, and real-time video that serve to move your technology program forward.

How is this Program unique?

The learning outcomes and associated content have been developed by our instructors out of years of experience leading innovative schools through complex change. Our team will share the wisdom and strategies that no other program can, tailored uniquely for technology leaders in international independent schools. Moreover, the innovative format leverages years of combined online and blended teaching experience to provide intensive, contextual, personalized, and collaborative learning experiences that provide true mastery, not theoretical learning.

How much does it cost and what are my payment options?
The full program fee is $3000 USD not including any travel costs (for the face-to-face sessions at the start and the end of the program) or the cost of university credit (if you wish to apply for it). Participants can opt to pay the full program fees up-front for a 10% discount. Alternatively, they can pay 50% upon registration followed by the balance 50% nine months after the start of the course.

What additional benefits will I take with me after the Program is completed?

• Access to a network of accomplished technology leaders and instructors for ongoing support.
• Free access to five additional Consilience Online microcredential courses in related areas.
• Access to an ongoing stream of news, webinars, posts, and insights related to technology leadership in your context.