Providing Ongoing, Rigorous Professional Learning & Coaching for School Leaders

To be great leaders and make change that is sustainable, education leaders require ongoing high-quality professional learning. One-time professional learning opportunities can be good entry points to the work, but they rarely offer the in-depth, effective professional learning leaders need to make real change in schools. Research and our own experiences in the field tell us that high-quality ongoing professional learning helps leaders deal with challenges that require shifts in mindset and behavior, like addressing inequities, and keeps leaders in their jobs longer and making progress. The Leadership Academy has coached more than 2,500 leaders across the U.S.

Coaching for Culturally Responsive Leadership

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 pursuit ...

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, ...

Executive Coaching

COVID-19 has created multiple challenges for school system leaders. On a professional level, leaders are working to serve students differently and under widely varied circumstances, while simultaneously planning for a return to school that holds new challenges like widened learning ...

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 ...

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