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University Educational Leadership Cohort Program

Program Timeframe

The Educational Leadership program is a two-year master’s program offered through the three local universities.

Audience

Interested educational leaders who hold a renewable VA teaching license, are highly skilled and well prepared to fill administrative leadership vacancies in FCPS.

Program Details

Participants pay for tuition and textbook costs, and receive a 20 percent reduced tuition rate.

Classes are held at FCPS facilities and are taught by FCPS employees, principals and Leadership Team members.

Classes are scheduled to coincide with FCPS standard school year calendar including school holidays.

Program Description

The purpose of the program is to develop potential educational leaders who are highly skilled and well prepared to fill administrative leadership vacancies in FCPS.

The Educational Leadership Cohort Program is a collaborative program between Fairfax County Public Schools and the three local universities:

George Mason University
University of Virginia
Virginia Tech

The university program applies both FCPS and ISSLC standards to prepare educational employees for school-based administrative positions of assistant principal, principal, and student activities director.

This 30-hour master’s degree, Educational Leadership program, is a two-year program to include an internship along with the required School Leaders Licensure Assessment examination, and fulfills the Virginia Department of Education requirements for licensure in Administration and Supervision PK-12.

Links and Resources

George Mason University: http://gse.gmu.edu/programs/edleadership/

University of Virginia: http://www.scps.virginia.edu/degrees/schooladministration2.php

Virginia Tech:
http://www.nvc.vt.edu/education/

Application Process

Selection criteria for the program include a minimum of three years of teaching experience with at least one year in Fairfax County Public School (FCPS), and outstanding teaching and leadership ability.

Information sessions are held each year for new forming cohorts and are advertised in the Supergram and on the Professional Learning and Training web site. During the information session, interested FCPS employees will be given the application deadlines to apply to both FCPS and the university.

The FCPS application consists of the application, resume, writing sample, and three recommendations—one from current principal, and two professional references. Applicants will follow the university application, admission, and acceptance guidelines.

A screening committee is formed composed of FCPS leaders to review and score applicant’s, and serve on interview panels. The FCPS Leadership Team gives the final approval of the cohort participants that are accepted into the program.

The selected group of 20 to 28 participants’ attends an orientation session that describes both the FCPS and university expectations before the first semester of classes.

Contact:

Rita Cloutier
Program Manager
703-204-3905

Map:
2334 Gallows Rd.
Dunn Loring, VA 22027