Strategic Projects

We offer many opportunities for you to find out more about our work and to see if they are the right fit for your system. Information sessions offer leaders an opportunity to learn about our offerings, ask questions, and meet other leaders who are looking to expand their network and grow their leadership skills.

ELSD provides many opportunities for you to find out more about our work helping teams to refine and strengthen leadership structures and to see if they are the right fit for your system.

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.

Other ELSD Learning Opportunities

The Tennessee Department of Education Rural Principals Network (TRPN)

Belmont University, in partnership with WestEd and ERC, will provide rural Tennessee school principals with unprecedented access to high quality professional learning and coaching.

Supervisors of Principals’ Academy

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.

Equity Centered Principal Pipeline Improvements

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).