What We Do

We change lives. 

We equip and inspire public school educators with transformative learning experiences, enabling them to help students achieve the true form of their lives. 

The MacMillan Institute trains, supports, and certifies educators in this distinctive philosophy, and it supports and certifies Academy and School models to be conducted according to the standards of the philosophy of the “spirit of liberal learning for all” offered in MacMillan Institute trainings.

TRAINING

  • Learning experiences based on the Cowans’ distinctive vision of the “spirit of liberal learning for all” that have been inspiring and transforming Pre-K through 12 educators in every discipline since 1984.

  • Certification training designed to prepare teachers and administrators who seek to build and nurture district and campus communities at a higher level of academic rigor, equity, and excellence.

 EDUCATIONAL MODELS

The MacMillan Institute certifies and provides professional support both to educators and to its Academy and School educational models.

The School and Academy are educational models based on the Cowans’ vision of the “spirit of liberal learning for all” and are designed to provide cadres of certified teachers and administrators in a department, departments, or entire schools with the structure to sustain and grow their own distinctive communities of academic excellence and social equity.

 CAMPUS and EXECUTIVE COACHING

  • Coaching and support for Pre-K through 12 educators taking MacMillan Institute certification courses.

    For those formally engaged in an Academy or School certified by The MacMillan Institute:

  • Specialized, intensive, on-campus professional support by expert Consultants to help educators—teachers and administrators—cultivate a distinctive community of learning, teaching, and leading that is distinguished by the collegiality of its educators and by the quality of its curricula across the disciplines.

HUMANITIES CURRICULA

For educators engaged formally in the educational models sponsored by The MacMillan Institute, the trademarked, integrated History/English curricula—robust, multi-cultural, humanities-based liberal learning experiences—may be licensed from The MacMillan Institute.

See “Academy and Curriculum” for more information about The MacMillan Institute’s humanities curricula, standards required for educators licensing The MacMillan Institute humanities curricula, and standards required for MacMillan Institute sponsored Academies.