Program Overview
The Mary Ann Remick Leadership Program is a 25-month graduate program (delivered over three summers and two academic years) for educators seeking to develop skills to become transformational leaders in their Catholic school community. Upon completion of the program, participants earn a Master of Arts in Educational Leadership from the University of Notre Dame and can be eligible for K-12 administrative licensure.
Each of the first two summer sessions is four weeks long, while the third summer lasts two weeks and culminates with commencement exercises. During their time on campus, Remick Leaders are enrolled in course sequences designed to provide the skills and knowledge necessary to become exceptional leaders while addressing the Indiana state standards for building-level leadership.
During the two academic years in the program, Remick Leaders complete a leadership internship at their sponsor school. As part of this internship, participants will work with their school supervisor to ensure that they are provided the opportunity to fulfill the requirements of the internship and online coursework. This coursework is designed to complement the work our Remick Leaders are already doing as part of this internship, and help guide their formation as are formed into effective transformational leaders.
At the end of the first summer, Remick Leader and their mentors co-construct an internship plan that will both benefit the school and Remick Leader to the fullest.
Licensure
Notre Dame has a licensing office and a licensing officer to assist program graduates in obtaining an administrative license. Our program is accredited in the state of Indiana, and all qualified candidates are eligible to obtain an Indiana Building Level Administrator license upon completion of the program.
Eligibility for Indiana licensure after completion of the program requires the following:
- Successful completion of coursework.
- Successful completion of the Indiana Pearson Content Assessment: School Administrator—Building Level (P12): #039
- Successful completion and proof of CPR training and Suicide Prevention training.
- A valid teaching license with 2 years of certified teaching.
To access the Indiana Office of Educator Licensing and Development’s LVIS system:
To view the Indiana testing requirements, visit:
Education requirements are state-based. Many states will reciprocally accept an Indiana license. As licensing requirements are subject to legislative changes and state regulations differ (and are often evolving), candidates interested in obtaining licensure in their home state should research the specific requirements for obtaining a license, as additional paperwork, coursework, filing fees, and examinations may be necessary.
Course Sequence
Over the course of three summer sessions and two academic years, Remick Leaders earn a Master of Arts in Educational Leadership and may become eligible for school leadership licensure. Our innovative approach blends on-campus summer classes with applied online coursework during the academic year, optimizing the time and energy of practicing educators.
Each summer, Remick Leaders courses in three central leadership domains — Instructional Leadership, Executive Management, and School Culture — that are focused to provide the tools and knowledge necessary to become a transformational leader in their community. During the academic year, this online coursework is geared to put this content into best-practice, as participants apply the skills and knowledge to real life-situations as leaders in their schools.
Course Sequence:
Summer Session I:
- Organizational Culture of Schools (3 cr)
- Organizational Management & Board Governance (3 cr)
- Leading Learning: Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment (3 cr)
- Discipleship & Root Beliefs: Integrated Leadership (1 cr)
Fall Semester I:
- Human Capital Management (2 cr)
- Internship & Practice I (2 cr)
- Tools for Self-Knowledge: Reflective Practice (1 cr)
Spring Semester I:
- Catholic School Finance & Business Management (2 cr)
- Internship & Practice II (2 cr)
- Tools for Self-Knowledge: Reflective Practice (1 cr)
Summer Session II (4 weeks):
- Leading Change & Transforming Communities (3 cr)
- Institutional Advancement & Facilities Management (3 cr)
- Building a Data-Informed Professional Learning Community (3 cr)
- Models of Leadership: Integrated Leadership (1 cr)
Fall Semester II:
- Leadership for Inclusive Schools (2 cr)
- Inquiry & Intervention I (2 cr)
- Church Documents I (1 cr)
Spring Semester II:
- School Law & Education Policy (2 cr)
- Inquiry & Intervention II (2 cr)
- Church Documents II (1 cr)
Summer Session III (2 weeks):
- Voices of Transformational Leadership (3 cr)
- Habits of Lifelong Integrated Leadership (1 cr)
Community and Spiritual Growth
Summer Spirituality
Our summer program provides Remick Leaders with a multitude of opportunities for prayer and spiritual growth. Every day, Remick Leaders have opportunities to gather in prayer. Daily Mass is offered throughout the summer session, in addition to other types of communal prayer and worship available across Notre Dame’s campus.
Pastoral Support
Leadership is demanding, professionally, personally, and spiritually. Members of the program leadership team are available year-round to provide pastoral support to Remick Leaders.
Retreats
All Remick Leaders attend retreats, both in the summer and every January, giving them an opportunity to step away from the demands of daily life, reflect on their experience, recharge, and reconnect with members of their cohort. The retreats are designed to provide opportunities for reflection, and are moments of quiet grace for school leaders whose lives are often extraordinarily busy. The retreat program includes an opening retreat each summer and a mid-year retreat during each academic year, for a total of five retreats during the course of the program.
Integrated Leadership
The Integrated Leadership course sequence focuses on integrating ACE’s three pillars of professional leadership, community, and spiritual growth into daily life while also fostering an intellectual appreciation and sophisticated understanding of the history and tradition of Catholic education. This course, which is led Fr. Nate Wills, CSC and Fr. Lou DelFra, CSC, looks to Jesus Christ and the communion of saints as models for transformational leadership. This course roots each Remick Leader’s vision of school leadership firmly in the good news of the Gospels. The course is taken for one credit during each summer session and each fall and spring semester, and in it Remick Leaders develop their own lives of faith while learning how school leaders can build a community of faith in their school. They learn concretely how to follow Christ and the saints’ examples as teachers, preachers, conveners, healers, and people of prayer.
Program Cost
Notre Dame is committed to reducing the barriers that make graduate studies a challenge financially, especially for Catholic school leaders serving in under-resourced schools and low-income communities. We are devoted to helping Remick Leaders secure additional funding.
The total cost of tuition for the Remick Leadership Program is $54,024. Through the generous support of Mary Ann Remick and the University of Notre Dame, each Remick Leader receives a $27,000 scholarship upon admission, reducing the total cost over the course of the program to $27,024.
To meet this remaining cost, we encourage all applicants to first speak to their schools, dioceses, religious orders, parishes, and/or other charitable institutions regarding financial support. Due to federal regulations surrounding national licensure programs, students in the Mary Ann Remick Leadership Program are ineligible to receive Title IV funding. Students accepted to the program are not able to obtain federal loans to support their participation in the program.
Last year, all incoming Remick Leaders who requested additional support towards their remaining out-of-pocket cost received additional scholarship funding to support their participation in the program. In many cases, this remaining amount was covered through support from the school, diocese, personal education awards or savings accounts. We are also able to offer needs-based scholarships so that finances never prohibit participation in the program.
