School Leadership Development

EduSolve co-constructs and establishes the structure and process to select, develop, and support diverse school executives. Our Principal and AP Leadership Academy process is customized and highly localized reflecting the values, needs, and priorities of your school district.

Program and participant success begins with optimizing the selection process, specifically:

(a) clarifying the role of mentor principals (those currently supervising applicants/participants);

(b) defining program entry requirements – experiences, duties, results – based on the work of highly effective assistant principals, not the principal standards, to avoid false positives and negatives caused by the way principals are or are not currently delegating leadership work;

(c) defining program exit performance requirements up-front so that selection criteria identify those most likely to move from entry to exit successfully; and,

(d) clearly articulating how the program fits into your principal selection process (e.g. Do graduates receive some type of preference in the process? Is program completion required for consideration?) so that the program attracts the strongest, most ‘ready’ applicants.

Our Steps

We Produce

Work with project managers to facilitate essential elements in the design of the process, to:

Clarify the role of principals in the application process and program.
Examine actions in the selection process to refinestrategy and structure within your larger principal selection process.
Activate creative thinking and design toward ‘tapping’ andmarketing for high potential APs

Application process with clear expectations on mentor principal role.

Process map detailing each action of the principal selection process.

Marketing and outreach tools that stimulate candidate pipeline

Design session with district leadership to:

Refine the ‘tapping’ & invitation process/criteria
Develop entry & exit criteria for the program
Discuss how the program fits into your school executive
succession vision & goals

Tapping criteria articulated and solidified
Selection criteria articulated and solidified
Application elements identified & application created for use in your platform

Design session with district leadership to:

Refine the ‘tapping’ & invitation process/criteria
Develop entry & exit criteria for the program
Discuss how the program fits into your school executive
succession vision & goals

Tapping criteria articulated and solidified
Selection criteria articulated and solidified
Application elements identified & application created for use in your platform

Working session with project managers to:
Refine and approve marketing collateral
Refine and approve the application process, tool, and scoring process

Approved application process, tool, and scoring process
Approved marketing collateral for roll-out

Build online application on your platform

Application ‘live’ and launched with help desk support available

Review and score applications based on co-developed rubrics
Prepare application files and data that summarize application results and rank order the applicants by score