Looking for meaningful practice-based professional learning that connects theory to practice? Do you want to meet and develop relationships with other leaders? Seeking coaching to continue cultivating your leadership practices?

You’ve come to the right place.

Courses begin January 2024

Collaborative Leadership Coursework Experience: Key Components
Earn a micro-credential through engaging and relevant 8-week coursework. This is an opportunity to further cultivate the skills, knowledge, and dispositions of collaborative and shared leadership! Our courses are designed to bring theory and practice together with equity and relational trust integrated throughout each course.

Coursework Goals:

• Deepen understanding of collaborative leadership, shared power, and voice (one of the six key practices of Community Schools)
• Collaborate to design and maintain a shared vision
• Develop deep and sustained practices to cultivate relational trust among key members of the community and school
• Develop systems and structures that support collaborative leadership, shared power, and voice
• Apply practices for shared data collection and analysis.

These key ideas, practices, and concepts are built into each course:

• Relational trust: Cultivate a critical necessary condition for action through storytelling, equitable discourse, and shared power and decision-making.
• Equity: Achieve equitable outcomes for families and students and process for engaging families, students, staff, and community organizations.
• Model: Exhibit proficient use of tools, practices, and protocols that support Community Schools.
• Qualitative and quantitative data/evidence: Gather and analyze evidence with particular attention to local data/evidence.

Key Components of each course include:

• A cohort of 8-10 school leaders
• An experienced leadership coach for each cohort
• An inquiry cycle that includes group sessions with your cohort to learn new ideas and practices, and independent practice time at your school site to apply your new learning.
• A set of tools to support implementation
• A set of practices and protocols that are modeled during group sessions

The following courses are available in 2023-24 and all synchronous sessions are on Zoom and led by your coach:

Course	Description
Reimaging Leadership as Collaborative	This course focuses on how leaders facilitate the design of a culture of collaborative and shared leadership. Participants experience protocols and practices for co-designing, facilitating, and supporting shared and collaborative system and structures
Forming enduring relationships with families and community organizations	This course focuses on developing and maintaining relationships with key members of the community. Participants use IEL-developed tools and protocols to extend and enhance their partnerships with families and community organizations.
Leading for Equitable Academic Improvement #1: Calling on Strategy	The focus of these two courses is on instructional leadership practices to support teachers as they cultivate equity-based classroom discussions. Leaders use tools such as evidence-based observation protocols and a discussion guide to support evidence driven collaborative conversations between teacher and school leader.
Leading for Equitable Academic Improvement #2: Question Form and Level

Typical Course Design Model

Week	Session	Notes
#1	Group Session	Facilitated by Coach
#2	Independent practice session	Coach meets 1:1 with each participant
#3	Independent practice session
#4	Group Session	Facilitated by Coach
#5	Independent practice session	Coach Meets 1:1 with each participant
#6	Independent Practice Session
#7	Independent evidence collection
#8	Participants present evidence of success and quality implementation	Facilitated by Coach

Key Partners