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The ELSD 30-minute information sessions offer leaders opportunities to learn about our offerings, ask questions, and connect with other leaders developing their network and leadership skills. We also offer 1-hour preview sessions to provide leaders an opportunity to sample our offerings to get a better sense of how our sessions are designed and to engage with other leaders.
Retaining excellent, diverse principals is critical to student success. With funding from the US Department of Education, WestEd has partnered with 6 Illinois Regional Offices of Education and 12 Illinois public school districts to create and test a model for principal apprenticeship and induction. Over the next two years, WestEd will provides coaching and support to 53 educators of color and women educators in support of their journey to principal positions.
Belmont University, in partnership with WestEd and ERC, will provide rural Tennessee school principals with unprecedented access to high quality professional learning and coaching.
Great principal supervisors grow principals’ leadership talent and schools. The Supervisors of Principals’ Academy (SOPA) is a learning network for current principal supervisors in charter and public schools. SOPA supervisors learn together about leadership coaching, evaluation and central office design, and we create/use the supervisory tool suite to advance practices. To learn more about SOPA state-level or systems work, email sopa@wested.org.
WestEd is engaged with University of Wisconsin-Madison, UCLA, Teachers College, Brown University, University of Texas and University of Taiwan in studying equity-centered principal pipeline improvements in eight, urban school districts. With support from the Wallace Foundation, WestEd specifically leads a multi-year study of policy network efforts by using social network analysis. For more information, contact Matthew Clifford (mcliffo@wested.org).