Leadership Training

Central to achieving equity is the development and strong support of site leadership. The effectiveness of the principal, in fact, appears to be the most critical factor that differentiates effective and ineffective schools in terms of their ability to close the achievement gap. Ideally, principals meet every six weeks to develop and share vision, distributed leadership efforts, teacher action-research findings and insights derived from data-based inquiry and literature analysis.

C.A.R.E. Training

Every six weeks, C.A.R.E (Collaborative Action Research for Equity) cohorts or teacher learning communities meet for a day-long seminar to sharpen action research skills, collaborate around promising practices and develop cultural competency. This team of carefully selected teachers serves as the school’s curriculum, instruction and assessment innovation hub. The teachers’ learning and transformed practices provides the content for the principal to function as the instructional leader

On-Site Coaching

Periodic support is provided to any school that requires significant or specific support around an equity challenge. Time is spent with each principal and equity team observing instruction and discussing site-appropriate intervention. School coaches can be developed from internal personnel or can be drawn from external sources.