Educational Leadership for Independent Schools

This fully online graduate certificate program, offered in collaboration with the Association of Independent Maryland and DC Schools (AIMS), serves the needs of directors, heads of schools, principals, and other professionals responsible for the management of non-public schools. The program is also designed to serve independent schools' teachers who aspire to become administrators in an independent school setting. The certificate program comprises 15 graduate credits, with the option of applying them to the Master of Science in Education with a concentration in Educational Studies.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of the program, we expect students will:

• Gain a deep understanding of their budgets, general principles of budget development, and strategies for communicating budgetary issues to their constituencies.
• Develop budgets for their schools that support faculty and staff in meeting their instructional goals.
• Become more proficient supervisors and professional developers with teachers and staff.
• Become more competent consumers and producers of research that is relevant to their jobs.
• Function more effectively and sensitively with faculty, students, staff, parents, and communities of diverse cultures and socioeconomic status.
• Enhance and refine their management skills, including supervision of personnel, strategic planning, conflict management, and fund raising.
• Improve their application of policy and laws to problems or issues that emerge.
• Become competent instructional leaders through the analysis and use of data about their schools and their communities.
• Build proficiency in the use of technology for instruction and administration.
• Become effective mentors and supervisors for their faculty and staff.
• Work effectively as part of a team and develop teams of teachers who provide participatory and democratic leadership to the school.

Hopkins invests in developing global perspectives so students can be engaged citizens wherever they are.

As a global university with students from all over the world, we welcome all kinds of experiences and new ways of thinking. We’re here to connect international students with the resources you need to become leaders and active members in our community and beyond. 

Please email [email protected] with any general international admissions questions. You can also email your regional admissions counselor if you have any questions specific to the area where you live or study.