MiniPD Courses Have a New Home

Getting Started
Finding Your Way
What to Expect
Assessing Learning
Extend & Contextualize
Let's Go!
Meet Your Instructor
Course Goals
Course Flow
Guiding Questions
Course Timings: Planning Your Time
Tool: Your Learning Log
5 As Protocol
Provocation: Thinking about Teams and Leadership
FREE PREVIEWIntroduction: Developing Relationships
Building Trust
Fostering Psychological Safety
Speaking Directly
Modeling Vulnerability
Providing Clarity
Developing a Team
Reflect: What? So What? Now What?
Discuss: Online Global Community
Module 1 Resources
Provocation: Managing vs. Leading
Introduction: Facilitating Collaboration
Seven Norms of Collaboration
Routines and Protocols
Setting Team Goals
Consultant and Coaching Roles
Reflect: What? So What? Now What?
Discuss: Online Global Community
Module 2 Resources
Go Deeper
Take Action
Discuss: Online Global Community
What will you be able to do when you have completed this course?
Identify the dimensions and capabilities of effective middle leaders.
Apply tools and approaches to support key areas of effective leadership, such as goal setting, developing relationships, using data for decision-making in student and teacher learning and measuring impact.
Demonstrate ways to promote the professional learning and development of your teachers or team for driving high-quality student learning, including collaborative inquiry, coaching and classroom observations.
Develop your own capacity, and your capacity-building skills to directly and indirectly impact teacher and student learning.
How will this course have a positive impact?
What are you still wondering?
Yes. Certification is awarded by MiniPD, from Faria Education Group.
You will need to complete all modules, learning activities in practice, and checking for understanding final assessment.
You will be awarded the Certificate of Completion in 'Middle Level Leadership for Impact in International Schools'.
MiniPD is partnering with Kent State University, a R1 university in the United States, to grant graduate credits for completing MiniPD courses. To receive graduate credits, the learner must complete a required number of MiniPD Core or MiniCourses, and submit the completed MiniPD Learning Logs for each course. Details of the credit application process can be found at https://www.kent.edu/ehhs/offices/pd/minipd-courses. Please check with your license issuing authorities for details on the number of credits needed for your license renewal.
You will be presented with suggested pathways to support continued learning. These will include carefully designed resources, MiniCourses, and personalized coaching conversations.
We can support you to implement this course in your own school with suggested approaches for interleaved professional development days, professional learning communities, and ongoing job-embedded peer learning structures.