Aspiring Principals Programs—Development and Support to Achieve Real Results

Our consulting practice helps clients develop leaders with the critical skills and self-knowledge needed to achieve significant results. We work side by side with our clients to improve existing programs or build resources from the ground up. Every school system has its unique challenges. Context is a crucial factor. Drawing from our proven model, we have customized aspiring principals programs all over the nation to fit the needs of each location.

NYC Leadership Academy’s comprehensive portfolio of school leadership preparation services is based on a robust, proven model.

• Design Curriculum and Facilitate Learning: Develop the skills of your own staff to prepare, train and support aspiring leaders. We work side by side with you to develop experiential, problem-based curricula and learning environments that are sustainable and responsive to local contexts.
• Develop Standards Framework: Establish a school leadership framework that identifies the skills, knowledge and dispositions that a school leader needs to drive student achievement. Comprehensive, behavior-based standards are the foundation for our principal training programs, from recruitment and selection to curriculum and program design. We can address local leadership standards by adapting our School Leadership Framework or help you build one from the ground up.
• Build Strong Candidate Pool and Cohort Selection: Create a targeted, strategic process for recruiting a strong candidate pool and selecting a cohort ready to tackle the program. We’ve learned by doing, and know how to recruit and select candidates who are both highly qualified and committed to social justice.
• Develop Program Design, Structure and Implementation: Develop the model and align your resources to support your vision for sustainable school leadership development. We help you (1) establish infrastructures (programmatic, financial, etc.) that support learning and (2) design an implementation strategy to get program buy-in.
• Train and Support Mentor Principals: We work with you to develop mentor principals who prepare aspiring principals for the day-to-day realities of school leadership during their residency or internship. It is one of the most critical components to a new principal's success. The internship provides aspiring principals with standards-based learning opportunities. An investment in mentor principals is a gift that keeps on giving; it prepares aspiring principals to assume the new role while increasing district capacity and sustainability of work.
• Design and Conduct Program Assessment and Evaluation: Assess the effectiveness and impact of the program through evaluation. This informs program improvement and establishes accountability for results.