A joint program of the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) and Harvard Business School (HBS), powered by HBS Online.

Course description

The Certificate in School Management and Leadership (CSML), a multi-course certificate program for preK-12 school leaders, is an innovative collaboration between the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) and Harvard Business School (HBS). Bridging the fields of business and education, CSML integrates expertise in managing teams and organizations with best practices in school and instructional leadership, to provide school leaders with frameworks, skills, and knowledge to effectively lead and drive change improvement in schools.

Hosted on the highly interactive HBS Online platform, CSML offers participants the opportunity to reflect on and apply the course learnings to their unique context, while interacting with and learning from a global network of school leaders.

The CSML certificate will be comprised of the following four courses, which can be taken independently or completed together in any order to earn a comprehensive certificate:

Leading Schools (Running June 17 – July 15, 2020)
Leading People (Running July 22 – August 19, 2020)
Leading Change (Running August 5 – September 2, 2020)
Leading Learning (Launching Summer 2021)