Program Overview
The Principal Licensure Program
of Antioch University Midwest prepares principals with effective
and innovative leadership skills, who are up to meeting the challenges of
school
administration.
It provides future principals with the skills and knowledge
to negotiate within community power structures, community influence systems,
neighborhood
influence systems, and a variety of pressure groups.
Principals must understand the nature of school culture and
be skillful in encouraging integration of all its members,
both academically and socially.
They must understand issues of gender, class, sexual orientation, social
status and race, and the impact that membership in minority
groups has on students’ daily
lives. By addressing these issues a principal can begin to build a community
of trust and successful learning.
If principals are to build trust and empower stakeholders then the structures
to support them must be in place. The program focuses on ways to allow principals
to guide efforts aimed at determining whether current structures are meeting
learner needs and school goals. It focuses on how principals can work effectively
within existing structures, and can lead in creating new ones when existing
ones are seen as ineffective.
