School Administration Program (Indiana Licensure)
Indiana Wesleyan University's School Administration (Indiana Licensure) Program is a post-master’s, licensure program. It is designed for alternatively licensed teachers who have a master's degree and have at least two years of teaching experience.
The 18 credit-hour certificate in School Administration identifies outcomes and expectations based on current school leadership principles and practices and enables interns to engage in inquiry, research, dialogue, team learning, reflection, problem-based learning, collaboration, and standards-based assessment from a comprehensive P-12 perspective. It aligns to the National Educational Leadership Preparation (NELP) program recognition standards on which our accreditation is based.
This program is open to candidates from all states and countries, but is tied to state licensure in Indiana.
Candidates who have completed this program should be able to:
- Understand and be able to apply Christ-like leadership principles that build the spiritual foundation critical to the success of a world-changer.
- Demonstrate competency in the following School of Educational Leadership's dispositional domains: Communication, Critical Thinking, Human Interaction, Leadership, and Professionalism.
- Demonstrate the ability to facilitate collaborative vision, mission, values, goals, and a culture of continuous improvement in the buildings they will lead to change the world.
- Demonstrate instructional leadership by understanding and promoting best practices in teaching, with an acute focus on student learning and academic success.
- Demonstrate the ability to leverage school operations, manage resources, and provide a safe learning environment to ensure the success of all students.
- Demonstrate the ability to build diverse relationships that engage parents and the community in the learning process and share resources for student success and for the benefit of all stakeholders.
- Model personal integrity, fairness, accountability, cultural responsiveness, and ethical/legal decision-making, and expect the same from staff and students.
Admission Requirements
The admission requirements for the School Administration Certificate (Indiana Licensure) program are as follows:
Field Experience Requirements
All candidates must complete a six-credit-hour internship spanning six months in accordance with NELP requirements.
Completion Requirements
To complete the School Administration (Indiana Licensure) Program candidates must:
- Successfully complete the SA curriculum.
- Possess a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or above in all graduate work and a minimum grade of "B-" in each course.
- Satisfy admission, mid-program review, and program completion gateways.
- Provide evidence of a passing score for the Indiana licensure exam for Building-level Administration.
- Payment of all tuition and fees is required to receive a certificate.
School Administration Program (Indiana Licensure) - Program of Study
Core Courses
EDL-657 | Collaborative Vision and Instructional Leadership | 3 |
EDL-616 | Organizational, Operational, and Resource Management | 3 |
EDL-618 | Professional, Legal, and Ethical Leadership | 3 |
EDL-610 | Community, Cultural, and Relational Leadership | 3 |
EDL-612 | Principal Internship I: Clinical Application of Leadership Principles | 3 |
EDL-625 | Principal Internship II: Clinical Application of Leadership Principles | 3 |
Total Credit Hours: | 18 |