New Program Offers Essential Skills for School Leaders

Launching Summer 2023

Stony Brook University's new professional development course for school leaders  examines all aspects of public-school human resource management, providing participants with the foundational skills needed to build strong HRM systems that enhance performance, create a positive work culture, increase instructional capacity and have a strong impact on student learning. 

Taught by subject matter experts in the fields of HR, labor relations, performance management, talent acquisition, leadership development and workplace culture, the course uses a variety of instructional approaches that anchor concepts. In each module,  participants will learn action-oriented strategies that relate directly to personal and professional development.

Participants who successfully complete the course will earn 30 CTLE hours.

Modules

• Module 1 – Human Resource Management and School Leaders

  Description

  Module 1 covers three units: Course Introduction, Employment Law and Policies and Procedures Specific to Schools, and Labor Relations.

  13 hours

   

  Learning Objectives

  • • Understand the evolution of the school HR practitioner’s current role to position program participants for future success.
    • Analyze the four C’s of HR leadership.
    • Create your HR vision (the journey from practitioner to leader)
    • Enhance participant insight and comprehension of established and emerging legal trends that impact the workplace.
    • Develop an employer-employee relationship that aligns with the organizational mission.
    • Provide participants with insights to the collective bargaining process (public and private sector) conflict-dispute resolution strategies, just cause and the disciplinary process.  

  Instructors:

  Dr. John Coverdale, Alyssa Zukerman and Lena Ackerman

   

• Module 2 - Leading School Systems and Employee Performance Strategy

  Description

  Module 2 covers three units: Creating a Positive Work Culture for Effectiveness, Talent Management,  and Coaching for Performance.

  15 hours

   Learning Objectives

  • Create a more positive organizational and workplace culture.
  • Enhance leadership and HR acumen for the modern employee centered workplace.
  • Adopt a DEI-focused recruitment, selection, retention plan for sustainability.
  • Transition the HR leader as performance coach and workplace culture sustainer.

  Instructors

  Trillium Fox, Doug Silverman, John Coverdale, Steve Riccobono

   

• Module 3 –Becoming an HR Thought Leader

  Description

  Module 3 is composed of two units: Leadership Development and Consulting Skills for HR Leaders.

  17 hours

  Learning Objectives

  • Enhance understanding of the organizational change process.
  • Analyze of the “future ready” workplace. How to develop a plan and receive internal support at all levels.  
  • Formulate a personal and professional growth plan to focus on becoming internal consultants, adapting, and improving organizational practices and policies.
  • Become a highly visible, trusted, and impactful HR leader.
  • Learn from a panel of impactful HR practitioners to gain insight into best practices and career guidance.
  •   Network with school leaders.

  Instructors

  Trillium Fox, Doug Silverman, John Coverdale, Steve Riccobono