Effective Leadership: Principals
GWINNETT COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS QUALITY LEADER PLUS PROGRAM
http://www.gwinnett.k12.ga.us/gcps-mainweb01.nsf
The Broad Foundation funds Gwinnett County Public Schools’ Quality Leader Plus Program to identify, train and support new principals in Georgia’s largest district, just north of Atlanta. Teachers with the necessary leadership credentials are recruited for assistant principal positions and supported with training over a two-year period. One of the most promising innovations is Gwinnett’s partnership agreement with Teach For America (TFA) to commit to placing specific numbers of TFA alumni in the Atlanta area as principals in the coming years.
KNOWLEDGE IS POWER PROGRAM (KIPP)
www.kipp.org
The Broad Foundation is a major supporter of KIPP public charter schools, universally recognized for their high-quality, rigorous curriculum and for providing an excellent education to underserved students. The Broad Foundation supports KIPP’s expansion from two to 14 Los Angeles schools and currently supports five new KIPP schools in New Orleans.
LONG BEACH UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT ASPIRING PRINCIPALS
http://www.lbusd.k12.ca.us/
The Broad Foundation funds Long Beach Unified School District’s (Calif.) Aspiring Principal Cohort program, which recruits high-performing teachers with administrator certification, provides them with district-led training and coaching, and places them as assistant principals first, and then as principals. Foundation funding has allowed the district to expand its pilot program, launched in 2007, and add a year-long apprenticeship called the Aspiring Principals Apprentice Cohort.
NEW LEADERS FOR NEW SCHOOLS
www.nlns.org
The Broad Foundation supports New Leaders for New Schools (NLNS), a bold effort to attract, prepare and support a new generation of outstanding principals for our nation’s urban public schools. The program combines an intensive summer training institute focused on management and instructional leadership strategies and a year-long, full-time “medical style” residency alongside an exemplary public or charter school principal. New Leaders for New Schools currently works with districts in Baltimore, Chicago, Memphis, Milwaukee, New Orleans, New York City, San Francisco Bay Area, Prince George's County, Md. and Washington, D.C. Both Time magazine and Fast Company magazine have recognized NLNS for its entrepreneurial and innovative approach to improving public education.
PITTSBURGH PUBLIC SCHOOLS EMERGING LEADERSHIP ACADEMY
www.pghboe.net
The Broad Foundation is funding Pittsburgh Public Schools’ Emerging Leadership Academy (PELA), which is part of the district’s system of inter-related initiatives called PULSE. Designed to recruit, train, evaluate and retain high-quality school-level leadership, PULSE addresses the full spectrum of principal performance—from recruitment and selection to retention and evaluation. The district’s principal evaluation system is unique in that it formally identifies school-level and central office accountability for performance and, through the pay for performance system, rewards excellent performance.
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, CHICAGO
http://education.uic.edu/index.cfm
Funded by The Broad Foundation, the University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC) Urban Education Leadership program has a dual purpose of (1) developing transformational school leaders for the most challenging schools in Chicago Public Schools (CPS)—high poverty, high-minority, historically low-performing schools—and (2) changing the way higher education prepares those school leaders. After a rigorous selection process, participants are enrolled as doctorate of education students for three years at UIC and placed in progressively more responsible positions in CPS, culminating with placement as a principal. The program also supports new principals through an extensive principals network.