The Lead by Learning Certificate Program
The Lead by Learning Certificate Program is available as a program add-on for educators who participate in our District, Education Service Agency, and School partnerships. The program guides learners through three modules plus a Module 0, which launches educators’ learning journeys with a single journal prompt designed to deepen self-awareness.
- Module 0: Reflecting on Self
- Module 1: Clarifying Purpose
- Module 2: Refining Practices
- Module 3: Understanding Impact


- Values multiple perspectives and seeks thought partnerships
- Deeply listens with empathy and care, looking first for assets/connections
- Builds relationships that cultivate a culture of professional respect, trust, agency, and distributed leadership
- Supports rigorous learning steeped in SEL

- Publicly models a learning stance (curiosity, vulnerability, trust, flexibility, adaptability)
- Uses data to uncover the learner’s experience
- Adapts and improves by deepening self-awareness
- Leads collaborative learning by experiencing and reflecting on conditions that supported their own learning (SEL, Quality of Interaction)

- Puts students at the center of learning by identifying and returning to high leverage goals that target students’ needs
- Communicates purpose and progress in humanizing, authentic ways to build awareness and support continuous improvement
- Creates space to move beyond transactional compliance to curiosity and collective efficacy
- Is driven by a moral imperative