Professional Development
- Code of Ethics and Standards of Conduct
- Early Childhood Executive Leadership Institute
- Executive Development Institute
- Instructional Coaching Institute
- Instructional Leadership Institute
- Leadership for Excellence in Science
- Leadership for Excellence in Literacy
- Leadership for English Language Learners
- Leadership for Students with Disabilities
- Other Services
Pathways to School Leadership (PTSL)
The University of Mississippi’s Office of Professional Development and Non-Credit Education within the Division of Outreach and Continuing Education partners with the Community College Foundation to offer candidates an Instructional Leadership Institute as their Orientation to School Leadership (OSL) credit approved by the Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) and six (6) hours of Educational Leadership coursework during the candidates’ one-year internship. Upon successful completion of the coursework each candidate will satisfy the MDE requirements to apply to receive their Career-Level Administrator License.
This is an all–inclusive program. Once you are accepted to the University of Mississippi and enrolled in the PTSL Program, you MUST satisfy all the coursework in order to obtain any credit.*
*If an individual has already begun OSL with the MDE, the six hours can be taken once OSL is completed.
*Instructional Leadership Institute (ILI) or OSL must be taken as a part of the program or completed before the six hours can be attempted.
Click here to learn more about applying, dates, locations, tuition, etc.
National Institute for School Leadership (NISL)
For more information on NISL programs, please click here.
For Your Students
For Your School
Educational Accountability Service for Schools and Communities
UM Writing Project Staff Development
Institute for Education and Workforce Development (Click to download PDF of brochure.)
Institute for Education and Workforce Development in conjunction with North MS Educational Consortium, Delta Area Association for Improvement of Schools, Gulf Coast Education Intiative Consortium, and PREPS (Click to download PDF of brochure.)
Strategic Planning and Educational Solutions for Dropout Prevention (Click to download PDF of brochure.)
Other Links
UM Undergraduate Application
UM Graduate Application
UM School of Education
UM Libraries
NCATE
MS Department of Education
The North MS Education Consortium
Teach Mississippi Institute
For additional information, please contact:
For more information contact:
Susan Rucker, Director,
Institute for Education and Workforce Development
Post Office Box 879
University, MS 38677
Office: 662-915-2707
Cell: 662-701-8150
Fax: 662-915-3153 or 662-915-5138
Email: srucker@nislonline.org