I moved my website a couple days ago because the last design was becoming unwieldy and rigid to manage, and plus I wanted to focus more on blogging, something I’ve been remiss about in the last year or so since I moved to New York City for grad school. I hope y’all like the new look of the website and will encourage me (and gently push me) in my blogging efforts.
So what have I been up to? What classes am I taking? Etc. etc.
Well, I graduate this May with a Master’s in Private School Leadership from the Klingenstein Center at Teachers College, Columbia University. Since Tia’s also getting her Master’s here and will finish next May, I’m currently looking for jobs within commuting distance of Manhattan. Will try and keep you posted on that, especially when I’m offered a contract and I accept!
As for classes, the Klingenstein program is extremely structured with only 31 students (30 full-time and 1 part-time) in the cohort. We move together as a group in most of our classes, and are allowed to take 3 electives outside our core curriculum in the span of the two-semester program. Some of the classes I’ve been taking are:
1. Resource Allocation for Non-Profit Organizations (basic accounting and budgeting class, and one of my favorites!)
2. Ethical Issues in Educational Leadership
3. Intro. to Research
4. Law and Education
5. How People Learn
6. Internship at a Public School
7. Supervision of Teaching and Learning
8. Supporting Teaching and Learning
9. Private School Leadership (how to design your own school)
10. Conflict Resolution
11. Strategic Marketing
12. Internship at an independent school
The classes are a good mix and the Klingenstein program is recognized, essentially, as the equivalent of an MBA for education.
In my next few posts, I will try and expose you briefly to some of the questions that I’ve been struggling with in my mind as a result of these classes. There’ll also be a place at the end of each post for you to add comments and give me your response/thoughts to those questions. I hope you’ll consider it…
Cheers,
Nishant!
