New Program for Clearing the Administrative Credential
On January 15, 2009, the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing's Committee on Accreditation approved Boston Reed's Leadership Development Program. The program meets CTC's "Tier 2" Administrative Credential requirments through a two-year coaching relationship with an experienced and trained mentor.
The seed for Boston Reed's program was sown about a year and a half ago. In a conversation about professional development among adult school leaders, someone observed, "Every one of us sat through our administraive credentialing programs with a roomfull of elementary school educators," and the relevance for career adult educators was spotty.
We expect our Leadership Development Program, with effective adult educators as mentors implementing a genuine Individualized Development Plan process, will be responsive to the needs new adult school adminstrators face. ...Not just jumpiing through the hoops for the credential.
See the CTC press release naming Boston Reed's program.
Learn more about Boston Reed's Leadership Development Program.
I applaud you and your team for the success of accreditation for your leadership development program that is sorely needed within the educator/administrator development sector of education
in America today. As a professional of the telecommunications industry, I have seen the need for such programs in many sectors of our economy. My personal experience in leadership
development has turned up programs that do have a mix of people that may not be the best for that particular program. Your new program should help the professional administrators of CA
in the future.