Leading to Address Early Learning Inequities
The P-3 Leadership Certificate Program provides elementary and early learning leaders with skills and knowledge to lead cross-system improvements and to implement instructional reforms that benefit our youngest learners, preschool through 3rd grade. This 11-month fully online, executive-style program is for working administrators who want to engage in intentional and collaborative learning to deepen their understanding of child development, school leadership, and learning opportunities that dismantle historic inequities.
Our approach at the University of Colorado Denver is to support working professionals in an engaging, blended format of monthly modules completed primarily through asynchronous work. The Program also provides bi-monthly synchronous sessions with leading researchers and practitioner-experts engaged in innovative P-3 work.
While school readiness and ready schools were priorities before the pandemic, they have become even more important as school districts, early care and education (ECE) programs, state agencies, and other stakeholders grapple with the inequitable opportunities provided to our youngest learners. Now is an opportune time for school leaders to re-imagine and invest deeply in their skills and knowledge to design school cultures and collaborative teamwork, informed by research, that will close early achievement gaps and support young learners.
Time Commitment | 10-12 hours of asynchronous + 3 hours of synchronous learning per module. |
Application Deadline | Applications for the 2022-2023 Program are closed. |
Start Date | June 1, 2022 |
Program Length | 11 months with month-long breaks in September and January |
Mode | Fully online with synchronous and asynchronous learning. |
Credits | Program may be converted to up to nine CU Denver Academic Credits or 13.5 CEUs |
Program Cost | $2,500 $2,300 for members of NAESP |