Developing Systems-Level Leadership in Support of Schools and School Leaders

We design and deliver professional learning and coaching for school system-level leaders, aiming to eliminate inequities in education systems by supporting the development of culturally responsive, equitable learning environments. School system leaders are essential for establishing and maintaining structures that support school leader success. Our system-level work, which ranges from equity plan development to executive coaching, is designed to support leadership development for district leaders so that they can be more effective in leading excellence and change.    

Developing Leadership Coaching Skills

Leadership coaches make us better versions of ourselves. They provide perspective, help us see aspects of ourselves we might not be aware of or want to see, and motivate and support us to do our work more effectively.  A strong ...

Scaling Culturally Responsive Instructional Practices

Creating learning environments for students that reflect the diversity of their cultural and life experiences is central to their ability to be successful as learners. When education leaders are culturally responsive, they help foster classroom spaces where students experience academic ...

Facilitated Leadership Team Retreats

District-level education leaders face an ever-expanding set of challenges in their roles and require opportunities for pause and reflection.  To enact meaningful change, leaders must step back from their normal routines and re-center themselves in building community and strengthening critical ...

Centering Professional Learning on High-Quality Instructional Materials

High-quality instructional materials (HQIM) help students to meet their highest potential and learn how to collaborate, investigate, and solve complex problems. As more districts shift to HQIM, teachers need access to effective professional development that best prepares them to successfully ...

Strategic Equity Plan Development and Implementation

To move the needle on educational equity in schools, system leadership must develop clearly articulated and actionable equity-focused strategic plans with ambitious goals and innovative solutions to accomplish those goals. Using our Equity at Work strategic planning guide as a ...

Culturally Responsive Principal Supervision

Culturally Responsive Principal Supervision is a 9-month learning program with both in-person and virtual sessions that builds the culturally responsive leadership skills of new and experienced district leaders who supervise and support principals. When you join this program, you join ...

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 ...

Central Office Capacity Building

School leaders have a much better chance of successfully creating equitable outcomes for students if they have the support of a school system’s leaders and central office staff. We have seen firsthand that building the capacity of a system’s core ...

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