Aspiring Leader Pathways

The Leadership Academy collaborates with districts to design and refine aspiring leadership pathway programs at all levels, ensuring they are tailored to local needs. Whether districts are building a program from the ground up or enhancing an existing pathway, we ...

Transformative Principal Supervision

Transformative Principal Supervision is a 9-month learning program that enhances the leadership skills of new and experienced district leaders who supervise and support principals. When you join this program, you join an alumni community of 279 principal supervisors working in ...

Developing Leadership Coaching Skills

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 ...

Coaching Education Leaders

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 ...

Scaling Student-Centered Instructional Practices

Creating learning environments for students that reflect their life experiences is central to their ability to be successful as learners. When education leaders are truly student centered, they help foster classroom spaces where students experience academic success, feel valued and ...

Facilitated Leadership Team Retreats

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 ...

Centering Professional Learning on High-Quality Instructional Materials

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 ...

Customized Professional Learning

Context is essential for effective leadership. That’s why we customize professional learning experiences for school and school system leaders and their teams to help build both individual and system-wide capacity. We know this work is not one-size-fits-all. It’s why we start by collaborating ...

Observing Student-Centered Instruction

To develop and maintain classrooms that effectively center students, school and district leaders must build their capacity to evaluate classroom instruction through a stronger student-centered lens and provide actionable feedback based on classroom observation. Observing Student-Centered Instruction enables school and ...

School Leader Coaching

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, ...

Leading Professional Learning That Sticks

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 ...

Leadership Coaching Program Development

“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 ...

Building Transformational School Leadership Teams

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 ...

Central Office Capacity Building

School leaders have a much better chance of creating successful outcomes for students if they have the support of a school system’s leaders and central office staff. We have seen firsthand that building the capacity of a system’s core leadership ...

Professional Learning for Teacher Leaders and Assistant Principals

The Leadership Academy’s professional learning series for teacher leaders and assistant principals focuses on helping them deepen their leadership skills, particularly in instruction, while receiving real-time feedback and the opportunity to practice situational problem-solving.  The series can be designed for ...

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