Graduate Certificate in School System Accountability

Student Learning Outcomes

Students will be able to:

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

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.