Educational Leadership

Lead a department or school through change people will resist.

What the course covers

8 modules, 32 topics. Open any one to see what sits inside it.

1. 1.1 What educational leadership is for
2. 1.2 Instructional leadership, and the alternatives
3. 1.3 Formal authority and informal influence
4. 1.4 Middle leadership as a distinct job
1. 2.1 Building a shared vision
2. 2.2 Improvement planning
3. 2.3 Prioritising when everything is urgent
4. 2.4 Communicating direction to staff and parents
1. 3.1 Raising the quality of teaching
2. 3.2 Lesson observation, and its limits
3. 3.3 Coaching and instructional feedback
4. 3.4 Professional development that changes practice
1. 4.1 Recruiting and keeping teachers
2. 4.2 Workload and wellbeing as leadership issues
3. 4.3 Difficult conversations about performance
4. 4.4 Distributing leadership
1. 5.1 The culture you tolerate
2. 5.2 Trust and psychological safety among staff
3. 5.3 Behaviour culture across a school
4. 5.4 Inclusion and belonging
1. 6.1 Evidence-informed leadership
2. 6.2 School data, without gaming it
3. 6.3 Evaluating an initiative honestly
4. 6.4 Stopping the things that are not working
1. 7.1 Inspection, regulation and reporting
2. 7.2 Governing bodies and trustees
3. 7.3 Budget and resource decisions
4. 7.4 The community and the wider system
1. 8.1 Why change fails in schools specifically
2. 8.2 Bringing staff with you
3. 8.3 Improvement that survives your departure
4. 8.4 Ethical leadership under pressure

By the end of this course you will be able to explain and apply:

Two hours, not two months Eight short modules. Finish in a day, or do one module a night for a week.

Depth beyond your coursework Pitched above taught content, for research, leadership and the work that follows the degree.

Built for a phone Watch on the bus, pause mid-module, pick up where you stopped. No download, no lab.

A certificate that can be checked Every certificate carries an ID your college or an employer can verify on our site.

About two hours in total — eight modules of roughly fifteen minutes. You can do it in one sitting or spread it across a week. Your place is saved either way.
No. There is no prerequisite course and no software to install. A phone, tablet or computer with an internet connection is enough.
Yes. This course is placed at Master's Degree for India, and the content is written for that level. If you are at a different stage, change your level at the top of the page and the courses will change with it.
A certificate for the course, carrying an ID that your college or an employer can check on our verification page. You keep access to the material afterwards.
Yes — ₹450 for this course on its own, or ₹1,450 for all five in this set, which works out cheaper if you want more than one.
There is a short quiz at the end of each module so you can check what stuck. It is not timed and you can retake it.
Change your country using the picker at the top. Level names, degree names and prices all switch to that country, and the courses adjust to its education system.

Wording shown for India. Pick a different country at the top and the terms, currency and programme names change with it.