Developing Instructional Leadership
Build instructional leaders with an equity focus.
In every district, school leaders are doing extraordinary work for students and families to close opportunity and achievement gaps. To ensure consistently high-quality instruction district-wide, principals need ongoing professional development with skillful facilitators to learn with and from each other.
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Are your principals and other instructional leaders regularly talking to and learning from one another?
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Is every principal in your district an effective instructional leader?
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Principal Network Professional Development services convene school leaders in regular cohort meetings to build an equity-centered professional learning community. Group meetings are generally coupled with school-site coaching to support principals and other staff to successfully implement their network learning.
This year long course is fully-customized and typically features core texts in instructional leadership, video cases, and ample time for collaboration and peer-to-peer learning. Principals and other leaders learn and practice strategies to improve the quality of instruction in their schools..
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Topics may include:
- Creating a school-wide vision of high quality instruction that truly informs teacher practice.
- Building an effective Instructional Leadership Team.
- Creating equity-centered professional learning communities.
- Designing targeted, high-leverage staff professional development.
- Effective meeting facilitation.
- Practicing adaptive leadership skills.
- Observation protocols and other tools to assess teacher effectiveness.
- Strengthening relationships and trust across race and role.
- Leading your school community in bold conversations about race and culture.
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We’ve trained cohorts of principals in:
- Alameda Unified School District
- Berkeley Unified School District
- Oakland Unified School District
- San Rafael City Schools
- Tamalpais Union High School District
- Vallejo City Unified School District
- West Contra Costa Unified School District
From 2001-2007, we partnered with Cal State East Bay to offer a Tier I Administrative Credential program (LEAD : Leading for Equity Achievement and Democracy). While we no longer offer the credential, our principal professional development series incorporates many of the activities and lessons from that successful program.
We believe that every child in America has the right to a quality education, and we coach people to become powerful leaders who make good on that promise.