Job-embedded Support

(Principal-in-Residence)

Initial professional development is insufficient for sustaining quality practice over time. Professional development also must be job-embedded and provide follow-up. The center offers in-school support to assist leaders with embedding learning as part of their professional day. In addition, follow-up professional development would be offered at the center to provide continuous learning for the practicing leader. A principal-in-residence, a retired principal who had demonstrated skills in bringing about school improvement, serves as a mentor, consultant, speaker, and/or professional development expert to those schools and principals identified by districts for additional support.

Summary

Through its various initiatives and programs, the Center for Educational Leadership will

• Provide training for current and future principals that focuses on yielding heightened student learning and success.
• Improve recruitment, development, and retention of outstanding administrators in an era of accountability and school diversity.
• Raise individual school performance levels through leadership training and collaborative programming aimed at enhancing partnerships among stakeholders
• including teachers, parents, school board members, and school and district administrators.
• Improve student achievement and principal and teacher effectiveness.
• Approach the preparation of aspiring leaders from an innovative and hands-on approach.
• Provide immersion in the daily work, challenges, and problem solving of building level leaders to provide aspiring leaders with a real world experience prior to their own appointment to an administrator position.