Graduate Certificate in School System Accountability

Student Learning Outcomes

Students will be able to:

• Understand and articulate the history of the educational reform movement; describing its intention and the associated pitfalls of an over reliance on standardized testing.
• Describe the unique characteristics of personal, internal, professional and organizational accountability.
• Define the concept of “student benefit” as it relates to organizational accountability.
• Devise a system for defining, articulating and measuring student benefit across a school system.
• Create and implement a communication plan based on student benefit designed to improve stakeholder engagement.
• Describe the benefits and challenges of implementing new models of organizational accountability in schools.

Educators and Educational Administrators with an interest in improving organizational accountability, stakeholder engagement and school and system performance will engage in a year-long certificate program which parallels the implementation of accountability reform.