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

Each module includes a framing overview video and includes two 1-hour Connects. Connects are learning spaces where participants can access thought partnership across the Lead by Learning network. Modules are published throughout the year with completion deadlines. Participants access learning experiences and content through our online learning management system and use this system to turn in the program’s required reflections. The program also includes an asynchronous discussion space where learners can start and respond to discussion topics.

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

Report Highlight

The Aspen Institute National Commission on Social, Emotional, and Academic Development

“Through the collaborative inquiry there’s a real aha moment,” said Carrie Wilson, executive director of Mills Teacher Scholars. “It gives teachers a chance to see how the competencies intersect with their instructional practices.”

-- A Policy Agenda in Support of How Learning Happens