The Master’s in Public Education Management is a 14-month, tuition-free program for emerging education leaders looking to hone their skills and increase their impact in the major urban school systems where they work. The Master’s program gives education professionals access to the rigorous coursework and faculty expertise of Yale SOM, along with a supportive cohort experience, and space to immediately apply learnings in their full-time professional roles. Students earn a Master’s of Management Studies from Yale SOM.
Students continue working full-time in their roles in urban, public school systems while traveling to the Yale SOM campus in New Haven for five residence weeks over the 14 months. Throughout the program, students engage in monthly virtual sessions and independent work that bridges their in-person experiences.
Program Learning Objectives & Structure
Throughout the Master’s in Public Education Management, students will explore new ideas, tools, and frameworks, to help them better answer the following questions:
How can I…
- Lead effectively and in partnership with stakeholders, for sustained change?
- Manage teams and resources strategically?
- Identify problems and evaluate choices to make decisions?
- Understand the broader societal context for and address inequities in students’ and communities’ access to opportunities and outcomes?
Residence Courses
Students will participate in a course experience that occurs both in person and virtually, aligned with the four program strands to maximize their immediate and long-term impact in their public school systems. Learn more about the program experience here.
In addition, through a culminating course, The Executive for the Education Leader, students will apply and integrate the tools and frameworks learned across the program to real-world scenarios.
| STRANDS | SAMPLE COURSES |
|---|---|
| Leadership and Navigation | • Ethics & Political Navigation |
| • Everyday Leadership | |
| • Internal Communications | |
| • Strategy, Execution, and Improvement | |
| Strategic Management | • Behavioral Insights |
| • Financial Information for Strategic Decisions | |
| • Human Capital Strategy | |
| • Managing Groups and Teams | |
| • Strategic Negotiations | |
| Managerial Analytics | • Managerial Decision Making |
| • Operations Management | |
| • Program Planning & Evaluation | |
| • Storytelling with Data | |
| Public Policy | • Education Policy for System Leaders |
The Executive for the Education Leader
Colloquia
Students will also take three colloquia courses, offered both in-person and virtually across the duration of the program:
- Reflection and Connection Colloquium: including student leadership stories, and written reflections to deepen connections across content and between content and students’ work.
- Equity in Theory and Action Colloquium: including action-oriented and reflective activities focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion.
- K-12 Practitioner Perspectives Colloquium: including guest speakers from K-12 school systems.
Capstone Project
The Capstone Project course will allow students to apply management and leadership skills within a practical project in their local context. It is an opportunity for students to grow through practice, for school systems to directly benefit from a student’s participation in TBM, and for TBM faculty and staff to observe and provide feedback on applied learning and impact.
By choosing a problem to solve and effectively planning and implementing a solution, students will have an opportunity to apply TBM course learning aligned with program learning goals.
Each project should address an issue that could result in a meaningful advancement of outcomes and equity for the system’s students, families, and/or community. The scope of the project should be ambitious and substantively achievable within the timeframe of TBM.
A Focus on Equity
The Master’s in Public Education Management places special emphasis on leading for equity, as students work within school systems that primarily serve students of color and historically under-resourced communities. Through course studies, colloquia, and their capstone projects, students will leverage Yale’s resources to address the real-world challenges of systemic inequity by learning innovative ways to create immediate value for the communities they serve.
Coaching
Each Master’s student will have the opportunity to engage in one-on-one coaching over the course of the program. Coaches will provide individualized support to students, in areas including advancing key initiatives, improving leadership competencies, or providing career advice. Students will have access to up to 12 hours of coaching hours while participating in the program.