The Leadership Academy’s professional learning series for teacher leaders and assistant principals focuses on helping to 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 the specific needs of your teacher leaders and/or assistant principals, though a focus on instructional leadership, data analysis, providing actionable feedback, and leading for high achievement are always embedded in our work, as are classroom walkthroughs. These facilitated learning will include observing classroom instruction and debriefing with the host leader, and are intended to help calibrate the practice of the participants as instructional leaders. In addition to the formal sessions, we can also create a project-based portion of the learning, where participants lead a school improvement project intended to have a positive impact on student learning. These projects will be large enough in scope to allow teacher leaders and/or assistant principals to encounter resistance, practice onboarding and organizing a team, and build the capacity of team members, but realistic enough to allow specific goals to be accomplished. This robust professional learning program usually follows the course of a school year, but can be modified and adapted to fit existing professional development program structures.