The Advanced Certificate program in School District Leader (SDL) provides students with an intellectual environment that enables them to refine existing knowledge and develop new knowledge, practices, and skills in the areas of administration, assessment, and curriculum.
The Advanced Certificate program in School District Leader (SDL) provides students with an intellectual environment that enables them to refine existing knowledge and develop new knowledge, practices, and skills in the areas of administration, assessment, and curriculum. Graduates of this innovative program earn New York State certification to become a school district leader in central offices. The SDL Advanced Certificate in Educational Administration program is nationally accredited and designed to prepare school principals to assume roles in the district office.
Admission requirements include a master’s degree from an accredited college or university; graduate GPA of 3.0 or higher both in the general average and in the major field; a minimum of three years of successful teaching, administration, or supervisory or pupil personnel experience; and New York State Permanent Teaching Certification (when applicable).
The program consists of 31 credit hours beyond an initial master’s degree in educational leadership or a closely related field. This includes a three-credit internship and a one-credit intensive NYS exam preparation course. Upon admission, the candidate is assigned a faculty academic advisor who assists in developing a course plan in accordance with the program requirements. All 30 credits are transferable to the doctoral program.
Candidates typically enroll part-time (two courses per semester) for the majority of their program. Courses are offered on the Queens campus (weekday evenings). Courses are also offered online.
Please view the School of Education Graduate Admission Application Requirements for detailed admission information.
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The Advanced Certificate program in School District Leader provides a means for candidates to demonstrate how to adapt administrative theory to practice, utilize and interpret educational technology, implement data-based decision-making, address the learning needs of diverse learners, and understand and conduct research. Online courses offer students flexibility and convenience.
The Department of Administrative and Instructional Leadership has partnerships with educational agencies in the metropolitan area, including Nassau County BOCES, Eastern Suffolk BOCES, Stony Brook University, and the New York City schools. Collaborative ventures with educational institutions in Korea and Italy have also been established.
The Advanced Certificate in SDL program at St. John’s University has an outstanding reputation for quality and completion. Faculty advisors work closely with candidates to identify current needs pertinent to the field of education and relevant to their own work contexts. The partnerships noted above provide a unique opportunity to examine issues in education with data that reflect current challenges in the local area, region, or state. Students are expected not only to reflect and improve their own professional practices, but also to facilitate the growth and development of other educators.
According to the New York City Department of Education (DOE), “St. John’s graduates were rated highest in retention, the percentage of teachers still employed in the NYC DOE three years after hire; were second-best in tenure approval; had the lowest receiving ‘unsatisfactory’ ratings their first year; and 91 percent of its teacher graduates were rated ‘highly effective’ or ‘effective’ as reflected in student growth scores on fourth- through eighth-grade math and English tests.”
As of 2014, US News & World Report ranked The School of Education graduate program as the fifth highest out of 166 graduate online programs evaluated across the nation.
The Advanced Certificate in SDL program is a credential beyond the master’s degree. The completion of this program allows our graduates to be very competitive for high-level educational job opportunities that relate to current school district leadership roles, curriculum studies, and technology.
Career Services at the University helps candidates identify opportunities for advancement.
The program is designed to develop educational leaders who are prepared to assume professional leadership in school district administration, higher education, school-level teaching, social agencies, not-for-profit agencies, corporations, and foundations—particularly those directly related to curriculum and instruction, educational technology, and differentiated instruction. The program prepares school principals to assume roles in the district office.
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The graduate program in Gifted Education at St. John’s University is designed to provide educators with a solid background of expertise in gifted education, enabling them to work effectively with a diverse population of exceptionally capable learners, and to take leadership roles in the field.
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Responding to the most current middle school needs, teachers who are certified to teach adolescent or childhood education may expand their career opportunities by earning our new Middle School Extension Advanced Certificate. You will not only be eligible to teach a wider range of grades, you will also gain knowledge of current best practices related to middle level education. These practices prepare you to create teaching and learning experiences based on the unique characteristics of middle school children.
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Earn a doctoral degree in School Psychology from St. John's University in New York City!
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This program is designed to foster teachers’ ability to develop the skills, attitudes, and abilities needed to identify and remediate major learning and behavior disorders, ranging from mild to profound, regardless of etiology.
Students in this program further develop the attitudes and abilities needed to identify and remediate major learning and behavior disorders, ranging from mild to profound, regardless of etiology.
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This degree will give teachers the opportunity to enrich their classroom pedagogy with specialization in Literacy instruction and instruction for the English Language Learner.
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