To be great leaders and make change that is sustainable, education leaders require ongoing high-quality professional learning. One-time professional learning opportunities can be good entry points to the work, but they rarely offer the in-depth, effective professional learning leaders need to make real change in schools. Research and our own experiences in the field tell us that high-quality ongoing professional learning helps leaders deal with challenges that require shifts in mindset and behavior, like addressing inequities, and keeps leaders in their jobs longer and making progress. The Leadership Academy has coached more than 2,500 leaders across the U.S.
New principals face a unique set of challenges in their earliest years in the role. Assimilating to a new school environment while acting as instructional leader, strategist, problem-solver, visionary, and change-maker results in a steep learning curve for new school ...
Leadership coaches make us better versions of ourselves. They provide perspective, help us see aspects of ourselves we might not be aware of or want to see, and motivate and support us to do our work more effectively. A strong ...
District-level education leaders face an ever-expanding set of challenges in their roles and require opportunities for pause and reflection. To enact meaningful change, leaders must step back from their normal routines and re-center themselves in building community and strengthening critical ...
High-quality instructional materials (HQIM) help students to meet their highest potential and learn how to collaborate, investigate, and solve complex problems. As more districts shift to HQIM, teachers need access to effective professional development that best prepares them to successfully ...
Leadership coaching helps education leaders take on adaptive challenges that require shifts in mindset and behavior and keeps leaders in their jobs longer and making progress. The most impactful coaches help school and system leaders identify and address inequities in pursuit ...
We have coached more than 2,100 principals in New York, Rhode Island, Iowa, Pennsylvania, and Nevada. Our experienced coaches provide in-person and virtual coaching that supports principal performance and leadership growth for school leaders at different stages, including early-career principals, ...
COVID-19 has created multiple challenges for school system leaders. On a professional level, leaders are working to serve students differently and under widely varied circumstances, while simultaneously planning for a return to school that holds new challenges like widened learning ...
If you want your team members to become better teachers, principals, or district leaders, they need professional learning experiences that will stick and enable them to truly shift their practice. Facilitating that kind of learning means moving away from the ...
“I would not have stayed in my job and made the progress I’ve made if not for my coach.” School leaders have told us time and again that having a skilled leadership coach as a non-evaluative thought partner has strengthened ...
School turnaround is a complex process that requires strong leadership and effective teamwork. Our Leading School-Level Change program is designed to build the capacity of school and system-level leadership to galvanize and lead teams in support of school transformation. The ...