Masters Program In Progressive Labor Leadership In Education

National-Louis University in Chicago is now accepting applications for the country’s first graduate program in Progressive Leadership for Labor in Education (PLLE).  This new and distinctive program is designed to prepare the next generation of education union leaders as voices for quality education, powerful teaching, good schools, and principled relationships.  

Students can complete a Master of Education (M.Ed.) or a Certificate of Advanced Study (C.A.S.) in Progressive Leadership for Labor in Education in two years, meeting a total of fourteen times, approximately once every four to eight weekends, in or near Chicago, and working online between face-to-face sessions.  They will participate in site-based internships while focusing on four core curricular areas – leadership, labor, systems, and teaching and learning.  

This program is appropriate for teachers, teacher leaders, building representatives, district union presidents and officers, educational reformers and change agents, aspiring union leaders as well as for administrators and human resource directors.  

The first cohort intends to start on October 1, 2009, with the initial “residency” scheduled for October 23-25, 2009 at the NLU campus in Lisle, Illinois.  Additional residencies are scheduled for December 11-13, 2009; January 29-31, 2020; February 26-28, 2010; April 23-25, 2010; and June 25-27, 2010.  Later residencies will be announced in October.  

Additional cohorts will begin after October, depending on the interest of qualified applicants.  

For more information, contact Connie Lohman-Huey (clohman@nl.edu) or phone 847-947-5583 or apply online.