D.C. Leader Cohort
A 22-month intense development program in partnership with Relay GSE’s National Principals Academy program for D.C. school leaders currently in Principal, Assistant Principal and similar roles. Applications details can be found here.
Georgetown University DC Public School Leader’s Executive Masters in Leadership
In collaboration with Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business and DCPS, School Leader Lab supports recruitment and selection of charter school leaders into this 11-month Masters program. This program is geared towards experienced Principals and Central Office leaders in the charter and DCPS sectors. The application deadline was November 3, 2017 for the 2018 program, which commenced in January 2018.
School Engagements
To strengthen internal capacity for leader development, we partner with schools and school networks in custom multi-month engagements. Recent projects include:
- Building the internal bench. We co-designed and delivered a Teacher Leader development program for a multi-campus charter LEA. We collaborated with the instructional team to develop a competency-based rubric for Teacher Leaders that scaffolds to other instructional leadership roles. Our practice-based training built team across campuses and built institutional knowledge to gradually release the program to the organization.
- Instructional strategy. Our team partnered with a single-site charter LEA to refine their instructional strategy goals for the year. Bringing together real-time student data, long-term strategy for the school and our School Leader Lab Competency rubric, we co-developed specific goals and action steps. We assessed and adjusted through the school year based on student data and instructional walk-throughs.
- Team transition support. We were engaged by a growing charter LEA to provide planning, consulting and coaching of their instructional leader as they evolve their organizational structure.
Coaching
Individual instructional leader coaching.