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SUMMARY
The Association of California School Administrators provides a full range of academies, in nine leadership specializations, to meet your needs as a school administrator, confidential employee or classified manager. Because ACSA represents all members of the district management team, we can help you build the administrative and leadership skills needed in your current job, while preparing you to take advantage of career advancement opportunities.
ACSA’s job-specific academies provide a solid foundation in the application of leadership and management fundamentals for administrators who are new or aspiring to advanced leadership positions. The academies are seen as the “fast track” into your career as a superintendent, principal, business manager, curriculum and instruction or personnel administrator, special education/pupil services director, confidential employee or classified manager. We invite you to take advantage of these exceptional high quality professional learning opportunities as ACSA continues to innovate to better meet your needs.
The academies attend to the California Professional Standards for Educational Leaders (CPSEL) and the standards for the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing’s (CTC) Professional Clear Administrative Services Credential (CASC) program. The ACSA Clear Administrative Credential Program is CTC-approved (see additional information at www.acsa.org/credentialing).
Curriculum & Instructional Leaders Academy
Intended Audience
Superintendents, Assistant Superintendents of Instruction; Project Directors, Curriculum Directors, Intervention Specialists; Site Administrators; District and County Office Administrators including those aspiring to central office curriculum and instructional leadership; School Board Members
The ACSA Curriculum and Instructional Leaders Academy introduces participants to a variety of strategies for developing effective instructional practices based on current student learning and assessment theories. Presentations and discussion sessions are conducted by an experienced faculty of current practitioners. This academy enables new or aspiring curriculum and instructional leaders to experience and begin to develop fundamental skills needed to address standard-based reforms including assessment, curriculum, and monitoring and evaluation of instructional programs for their schools and districts within the context of local control accountability planning and the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF).
For CTC-approved Clear Administrative Services Credential programs, and with prior approval of the credentialing program leadership, academy hours may be used toward completing annual required professional development requirements.
Specific themes include:
• Quality instruction for all.
• Meeting diverse student needs.
• Leading system change and transition.
• State and federal mandates and accountability.
• Personalizing learning in standards-based systems.
• Instructional materials selection (traditional, online, electronic, open-source).
• Meeting student needs with coordinated funding (Local Control and Accountability Plan – LCAP).
• Implementation of the California State Standards for ELA, ELD, Math, History-Social Science, and Next Generation Science.
• Student assessments: formative and summative (Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium – SBAC).
• Literacy in core content areas.
The course syllabus and materials provided to participants are excellent resources for ongoing reference and career planning.
2026-27 meeting format
Participants experience 80 hours of professional learning over eight weekends in a Virtual/Online format for 10 hours per Academy weekend.
