What you’ll learn:

Over five weeks, you’ll engage in a cohort-based learning experience designed to empower you to develop practical, real-world skills on:

• Design and manage legally compliant, goal-aligned budgets that reflect your LEA’s strategic priorities and involve collaborative input from key stakeholders.
• Ensure accurate accounting and auditing with strong internal controls and reporting.
• Lead and evaluate staff effectively with sound supervision, evaluation, and cross-training.
• Optimize financial systems and data security through smart tech use and staff training.
• Communicate financial information clearly and credibly to diverse audiences, incorporating feedback and explaining fiscal impacts of decisions.
• Ensure ethical compliance with school finance laws by understanding and applying relevant codes, policies, and professional standards.
• Grow leadership capacity to drive strategic, organization-wide initiatives.
• Plan and manage school business projects strategically by coordinating resources, mitigating risks, and aligning outcomes with LEA objectives.
• Interpret and influence collective bargaining agreements by analyzing financial impacts of labor negotiations to support sustainable staffing and budgeting.
• Oversee procurement and asset management with legal compliance and transparency.

Plus, earn 15 CEUs (continuing education units) to further professional development and a certificate upon completion.

September 22 – October 27, 2026

Registration closes September 15, 2026.

Member: $1,975
Non-Member: $2,475