Aspiring Principals

Written Application: The application requires a description of the candidate's education and professional experience, essays and the submission of professional recommendations. Candidates must complete and submit this application online. Click here for the application.

New York City public schools continue to need exceptional and motivated instructional leaders focused on student learning and achievement.

The NYC Leadership Academy holds all program participants to rigorous school leadership performance standards that are set forth in our Leadership Performance Standards Matrix.

Below is a list of some publications that the NYC Leadership Academy recommends for future and current school leaders as well as administrative coaches and mentors.

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The NYC Leadership Academy's Aspiring Principals Program (APP) application and selection process consists of the following steps:

Along with evaluation results showing the impact of NYC Leadership programs on student learning outcomes are stories about the principals whose instructional leadership is transforming some of the city's highest need schools. We share some of these inspiring stories below:

The Transfer School Scholars Program, offered through our Aspiring Principals Program (APP), provides intensive training for new leaders of existing and newly created transfer schools and is specifically designed to give these aspiring principals experience with the

The Aspiring Principals Program (APP) has three phases: a six-week summer intensive, followed by a ten-month school-based residency working side-by-side with a mentor principal and ending with a planning summer that helps participants transition su