Principal Coaching

Supporting School Leaders To Deepen Their Impact

Felipe Jackson
New Leaders Alum, 2011

Our principal coaching services provide leaders with the confidential guidance, thought partnership, and resources they need to lead effectively. Developed specifically for principals and assistant principals, our virtual and hybrid coaching models give leaders the opportunity to develop and nurture their individual leadership skills while they spearhead transformative change across their buildings.

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David O'Hara
New Leaders Alumni, 2010

School leaders who seek professional coaching can learn how to build strong and trusting internal relationships, ensure high-quality rigorous instruction, and create a culture of collective efficacy. These leadership qualities are coached and supported by a skilled New Leaders Coach who grounds effective coaching in the Transformational Leadership Framework (TLF).

Here’s Why Coaching Works

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Leaders engage with others across their system in job-alike cohorts as they work together to establish a common language and the systems and structures required to create and implement a vision of instructional excellence and equity at scale.

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Growth in resilient and adaptive leadership

Our coaching is customized to meet the needs of each leader. We use a cycle of inquiry to spur deep thinking and build the capacity of school and system leaders to reflect, analyze, and problem-solve independently.

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Individualized and
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Competency-based online modules provide participants with a range of personalized learning opportunities to explore and advance their own leadership.

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Direct application of professional learning

Community of practice sessions provide leaders with dedicated space to engage in deep discussions and rigorous activities around a particular problem of practice. Through these sessions, leader develop and hone the mindsets, skills and leadership actions required to lead more equitable schools.

Authentic practice via job-embedded practice

In alignment with adult learning theory, job-embedded practice offers opportunities for leaders to apply newly acquired skills to their work. Leaders learn to implement their strategies in real-time and utilize feedback cycles to iterate and deepen their practice.

Here’s Why Coaching Works

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Space for immediate solutions
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Resilient and adaptive leadership growth
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Individualized and
on-time support
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Direct application of professional learning

Areas Of Focus For Coaching Can Include:

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Strengthening best practices in ELA and math instruction to drive equitable learning gains

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Building team capacity for data analysis and continuous school improvement

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Refining school-wide systems and structures to advance equitable solutions

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Developing new leadership skills for career advancement and transformational impact

How It Works

Step 1: Our leadership coaching services can begin at any point in the school year, providing leaders with the support they need, when they need it. Alongside their New Leaders coach, school leaders create a coaching goal and plan that clearly articulates their priorities and areas of focus.

Josie Carbone
New Leaders Alum, 2009

Step 2: As the individual coaching sessions begin, school leaders meet with their New Leaders coach to make progress against their pre-identified goals and learning targets. Each coaching session utilizes a cycle of inquiry to drive deep thinking and build the capacity of leaders to reflect, analyze, problem-solve independently, and achieve their personal growth goals.

Step 3: At the culmination of the coaching sessions, school leaders collaborate with their New Leaders coach to evaluate their progress against their goals and develop a plan to sustain their learning moving forward.

Althea Hammond
New Leaders Alum, 2006

Hear What Leaders Say About Our Coaching

“We get great feedback from our leaders on the content of New Leaders programming. They love the coaching. They feel that they are really being strengthened as leaders.”
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Tracee Frazier

Director, Educator Pipelines and Induction
Baltimore City Public Schools
“New Leaders improved me in ways that I never would have otherwise. That personalized feedback and coaching built in me a certain amount of grit and willingness to be vulnerable that I wouldn’t have gotten anywhere else. It made me a better leader and a better person.”
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Dr. Hugo A. Saucedo

Principal
San Antonio Independent School District
“It is eye-opening to have a New Leaders coach come in, listen to your experiences, ask you great questions, call out what you’re not seeing or what needs to shift. The impact is huge.”
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Katie Carmany

Vice Principal on Special Assignment
Fresno Unified School District

Strategic District Consulting Services

Our tailored services are supporting deputy chief Lewis and his team to audit the existing district model of principal evaluation and then engage multiple stakeholders to revise a development framework that measures the impact and efficacy of school leaders.

Drive greater impact with the customized support you need.

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“Executive leadership coaching helps me to prioritize where to start, identify my next steps, and look for evidence of progress. It keeps the focus of our decisions centered on student learning and allows me to stand in confidence in my leadership.”
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Gina Sudaria

Superintendent,
Ravenswood City School District
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“New Leaders understands my issues.”
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Elizabeth Kirby

Superintendent,
Cleveland Heights-University Heights City School District
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