Post Master's Principal License Certificate

The post master's principal license certificate program provides teachers with experiences in addressing the leadership and management needs of contemporary schools. Successful completion of the certificate program leads to principal licensure in Oregon and will be noted on the candidate's transcript.

Post Master's Principal License Certificate Program Performance Standards: 

Standard 1: Mission, Vision, and Improvement. Collaboratively lead, design, and implement a school mission, vision, and process for continuous improvement that reflects a core set of values and priorities that include data, technology, equity, diversity, digital citizenship, and community.

Standard 2: Ethics and Professional Norms. Understand and demonstrate the capacity to advocate for ethical decisions and cultivate and enact professional norms.

Standard 3: Equity, Inclusiveness, and Cultural Responsiveness. Develop and maintain a supportive, equitable, culturally responsive, and inclusive school culture.

Standard 4: Learning and Instruction. Evaluate, develop, and implement coherent systems of curriculum, instruction, data systems, supports, and assessment.

Standard 5: Community and External Leadership. Engage families, community, and school personnel in order to strengthen student learning, support school improvement, and advocate for the needs of their school and community. 

Standard 6: Operations and Management. Improve management, communication, technology, school-level governance, and operation systems; to develop and improve data-informed and equitable school resource plans; and to apply laws, policies, and regulations.

Standard 7: Building Professional Capacity. Build the school’s professional capacity, engage staff in the development of a collaborative professional culture, and improve systems of staff supervision, evaluation, support, and professional learning.

Standard 8: Internship. Synthesize and apply the knowledge and skills identified in NELP standards 1 through 7 in ways that approximate the full range of responsibilities required of building-level leaders and enable them to promote the current and future success and well-being of each student and adult in their school.

The preceding National Educational Leadership Preparation (NELP) Building Level Standards are aligned to School Administrator Licenses requirements of OAR 584-235-0100, rooted in Oregon’s commitment to student success and equity. The complete NELP Standards – Building Level can be found on the website of the National Policy Board for Educational Administration.