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Intensive Programs

Designed for in-service teachers and practitioners who are interested in obtaining a advanced degree in 2 or 3 summers. Gain leadership skills and a better understanding of your field of expertise with TC's professional masters and doctoral programs.

Klingenstein Center for Independent School Education

Heads training and development of leaders for independent schools.

Adult Education Guided Intensive Study (AEGIS)

The AEGIS program is designed for experienced, self-directed professionals capable of completing a rigorous program emphasizing guided independent study. Students must complete 40 transferable credits from previous successful graduate study prior to beginning the program.

Intensive Masters Program: Computing and Education

Designed for teachers, technology leaders or aspiring technology leaders, curriculum designers, and other professions involved with technology in schools.

Ph.D. in Education Leadership

Offers practicing, certified school administrators an opportunity to complete a rigorous doctoral program while continuing to practice.

Summer Intensive Art & Art Education (INSTEP)

Guided by artistic and critical perspectives that are used to investigate pedagogical, philosophical, and theoretical issues informing educational theory and practice.

Summer Intensive English Education (INSTEP)

Address the needs of beginning teachers by offering them the opportunity to acquire their master's degree with expediency.

Summer Intensive Music Education (INSTEP)

Focuses on the needs of beginning teachers by offering them the opportunity to acquire their master's degree.

Summer Intensive Social Studies (INSTEP)

Prepares teachers to become proficient in dealing with topics as they relate to social studies teaching and learning with a particular emphasis on the interplay of theory and practice. This degree program focuses on developing leaders in social studies education for middle and high schools, and is designed primarily for in-service teachers.

Summer Principals Academy

The Public School Summer Principals Academy integrates practice and skill development with theory and research using case studies and simulations and teamwork. Aspiring school leaders are encouraged to construct transforming possibilities for student learning, school improvement, social equity, and opportunity. We foster leadership development through an integrated set of experiences that include sound theoretical and "best practice" knowledge, problem-based coursework and field-based experiences, including an intensive and extended internship.



The Clumsy Stormtrooper

Teachers College draws students from all around the globe, but Jonathan Bresman may be the first who comes to us via the desert planet of Tattooine. OK, he may not literally be Luke Skywalker's best friend, but you can see him playing, as he puts it, "the world's clumsiest stormtrooper" in remastered versions of The Empire Strikes Back -- just one of the wild turns his life has taken. 

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