Focusing Direction, Cultivating Collaboration, Deepening Learning, and Securing Accountability
Explore how leadership for curriculum & instruction can enhance student learning.
School improvement efforts may fail to improve student achievement if they fail to strengthen instructional program coherence, directed at providing instructional guidance and support to teachers. Education leaders promote the use of rigorous curricula, which set high expectations for students and are aligned with academic standards. In Inquiry into Curriculum Leadership, educators engage in collaborative inquiry into how leaders can seek to maximize student learning through systems of support and effective assessment strategies that inform instruction, curricular materials that support effective teaching, authentic and differentiated professional development, and coordination of these systems in ways that create opportunities to personalize the academic program to meet individual student needs. Clinical experiences in the learning strand call on participants to understand and apply these concepts at the systems level, analyzing and improving instructional programs in their context. Performance assessments require participants to systematically evaluate the coherence of instructional programs using a research-based framework.
Above and beyond these activities, educators can elect to do an additional exploration of research as it informs their practice. Participants may also choose to participate in an additional clinical coaching cycle with conferencing and an observation to support further improvement and application.
Offered in Fall 2026.
The upcoming seminar schedule is below. Online sessions are on Zoom, and in-person sessions take place at 194 Dartmouth College Hwy, Lebanon, NH, 03766.
- Saturday, October 24, 9:00-3:00, Instructional Guidance Systems: Systems, Alignment, & Coherence, in person
- Wednesday, November 4, 9:00-3:00, System Levels & Alignment, in person
- Saturday, November 21, 9:00-3:00, Coherence and Leading for Coherence, online
- Practicum work and independent practice will continue beyond the final seminar. Completion is anticipated in mid-January.
Cost and Credits:
- 2 credits (standard inquiry only)
- add 1 credit (optional) for additional exploration of research
- add 1 credit (optional) for clinical coaching cycle
- $640 per credit