Principalship is designed to provide school leaders with the skills they need to positively impact academic success for their students, the cultural climate of their schools, and the professional learning and retention of their teachers.
Focus Area
In the first three years, new principals need to develop their leadership skills. The Principalship focus area offers a series of learning experiences and supports that equip new leaders to meet the specific demands that come with serving as a building principal. New principals prepare for success within our distinct phases of principalship implementation and adoption.
Professional learning starts in the BL Lab. District administrators get a complete view of Principalship progress inside the platform dashboard of learning metrics. Principals access learning experiences, engage with their coach, and track progress towards their outcomes. Try out self-directed professional learning courses for educational leaders to build on learning throughout the school year.
Close the implementation gap and ensure district-level innovation truly translates to change in practice, by centralizing all your high-quality professional learning resources for educators, leaders, and administrators in one platform.
Bring principals across a district together an an in-person launch workshop that will validate the current challenges being faced and explore various research-focused solutions to help mitigate them moving forward.
Leaders will be paired with an online coach of their own to learn new strategies and practice the skills they’ll need to make positive changes for teachers. Using the Try-Measure-Learn approach, BetterLesson coaches provide personalized guidance so that principals can try out new practices, measure their impact on teachers, and build a plan for continuous improvement.
Leaders build their capacity to enact changes by understanding what success looks like in the classroom and use data to make informed professional learning decisions. Learning Walks are a non-evaluative collaborative experience that brings leaders together to observe classrooms, acknowledge student-centered practices, and create a tailored learning plan to support teachers.
Once the principal and coach identify Principalship goals, it’s time to practice. Designed with new leaders in mind, Virtual Workshops offer targeted learnings in a collaborative environment.
Comprehensive Principalship professional learning plans feature personalized Coaching and dedicated resources for new leaders. The confidence in standard one-off workshops has declined. Educators are not effectively achieving new goals after a singular PD Day. By scaffolding support throughout the year, our team celebrates your progress and provides participant data to prove meaningful changes in principalship practice.
Outcomes connect each BetterLesson learning experience to tangible, impactful change. For Principalship, we focus on helping new principals achieve the following distinct leadership outcomes.
Outcome: I use strengths-based leadership in my practice and evaluate its effectiveness through ongoing reflection and refinement.
Outcome: I use equity as a lens to evaluate programming in my leadership practice, mitigate resistance as needed, and enact strategies to ensure equitable outcomes for stakeholders.
Outcome: I evaluate the effectiveness of PLCs and refine PLC structures within my school.
Outcome: I leverage trust and transparency to maximize the use of teacher evaluation systems and tools to facilitate educator growth.
Outcome: I implement the use of wellness strategies in various contexts as needed to maintain my personal, social, and emotional well-being and guide others in doing the same.
Outcome: I use calibration techniques strategically to guide educators in using evidence-based feedback to facilitate self-reflection and growth in practice.
Outcome: I use growth-centric tools and strategies to empower teacher development.
Outcome: I use effective human capital management strategies to anticipate staffing needs, identify successors for key roles, and target growth opportunities for educators.
Study strategies to identify, engage, and empower key faculty members and define the goals of any PLC.
Support teachers to uncover feedback through questioning and coaching that encourages ongoing change in practice.
Learn methods for leaders to integrate and practice social-emotional learning competencies across classrooms, schools, families, and communities.
Accelerate growth in your schools and stay ahead of the curve.
