Program Components

Weekly seminars focused on school improvement and co-constructed and co-taught by university faculty and participating school principals provide structure and support for action research assignments and apprenticeship work.

Daily apprenticeships throughout the school year partially release participants from their current responsibilities to learn and practice effective leadership and school improvement skills.

Monthly visitations provide opportunities for participants to broaden their understanding of other schools and other approaches to school improvement.

Monthly on-site coaching by facilitators provides individual and team support for leadership challenges.

An intensive summer program provides opportunities for sustained work toward school-specific goals.

Activities, readings and assignments are organized around tasks participants encounter in both the positions they currently occupy and those to which they aspire. Performance is assessed based on research-based competencies for effective instructional leadership practice.