Center for Leadership and Educational Equity’s Monthly eNewsletter – November 2024
Our collective power expands when we support each other to foster the unlimited potential of each and every student.
Increase Your Impact as a Leader for Equity
How do we adopt a proactive stance as leaders for equity that emphasizes our capacity for meaningful change for students in our settings?
School leadership is a complex landscape o f competing needs, in cluding things outside of our control, like budgets and regulations and reacting to urgent issues. Building the habit to regularly improve elements in our control creates proactive agency that is essential for transforming educational environments and ensuring that we focus on building more equitable student outcomes.
CLEE uses cycles of improvement to build the habit of using data to identify needs and changes to address those needs. But where should we focus those cycles of improvement to impact equity? Drawing on Stephen Covey’s insights about the realm of influence, the place of proactive agency, we encourage leaders to center their efforts on the instructional core – supporting teacher practice and development, ensuring content relevance and rigor, and fostering student engagement.
Joe Pirraglia, Director of Principal Preparation Programs
By honing in on these three aspects of the instructional core, leaders not only focus on changes within their influence but also invigorate their passion for their work. Regularly making improvements to the instructional core is crucial for current leaders in education. The Principal Residency Network (PRN) prepares aspiring principals in Rhode Island to build the habit of improving elements in their realm of influence. School leaders are presented with many challenges that can feel overwhelming, but by embracing their agency and influence, school leaders can navigate complexities while cultivating a vibrant learning environment.
Increase Your Impact as a Current Leader Become a Principal in Rhode Island Through PRNBecome a Principal for Equity in Rhode Island!
Effective educational leaders are needed now more than ever. Students need educators who are ready and willing to create equitable learning environments.
The Principal Residency Network (PRN) is one of the longest-running residency-based preparation programs in the country, dedicated to developing principals who lead for educational equity through innovation.
Make PRN your first step towards equitable leadership. Equip yourself with the tools you’ll need to address the complex challenges and to advance your career in education!
Join an Upcoming PRN Info Session
- Wednesday, November 13, 2024
- Tuesday, January 14, 2025
- Tuesday, February 4, 2025
- Monday, March 3, 2025
All Times 4:30 – 5:30pm
CLEE’s Facilitator Training – Transformation Expands Outward
CLEE’s Facilitator Training not only helps to hone and develop your facilitator skills but it also creates an avenue for personal exploration and transformation. Transformation begins at the individual level, where self-awareness and a willingness to confront discomfort are crucial. This awakening can lead to a deeper understanding of how our identities shape our experiences and perceptions, revealing new insights.This process often ignites a recognition of injustices that we may have previously overlooked. The journey starts with identifying and grappling with one’s own biases and seeking growth, laying the foundation for broader systemic change.
As our self-awareness grows we begin to look at the communities around us, particularly educational settings in which we work and hope to facilitate collaborative learning. We consider how we can use our new understandings to impact the educational experiences of our students, families and colleagues. We begin to engage with diverse perspectives and promote inclusivity with the goal of creating environments and structures that develop and sustain an equitable culture of learning and growth.
Julia Hendrix, Continuous Improvement Coach and Facilitator
Ultimately, this transformation of structures and systems requires committed leaders at all levels and a willingness to take risks. To effectively drive change, we must undergo our own transformation, find our own leadership voice from any part of the organization, and develop the resilience needed to navigate challenges. This commitment is vital for fostering a culture that embraces change and challenges the status quo. When we model transformation, we can inspire others in their own transformational journeys which expand outward to the schools in which we serve.
Bring Personal Transformation to Your Setting Join CLEE’s Open Facilitator TrainingFacilitator Training (Virtual): Facilitate Adult Learning
All of us have the ability to lead adult collaboration to advance equity, regardless of our position in our organization or school. Facilitator Training builds your capacity to be a leader for equity. Facilitative Leadership provides leaders and educators a place to share best practice, engage using collaborative tools that strengthen leadership skills, and challenge thinking to discover ways that ultimately increase equity in our school communities.
Fall Meeting – National Gathering Tomorrow
We are so excited to see many of you tomorrow at the Crowne Plaza in Warwick, RI!
Join us even if you can’t be there!
- Follow the action and post on social media with #fallmeeting24
- Discuss and share Artifacts in our Community Hub
Each month, CLEE offers a question or two to help you reflect on what you are experiencing. Thinking about the importance of questioning and what your answers mean is one more step in your growth as a leader for equity.
Join CLEE on Twitter @Leadforequity to follow the monthly questions and share your answers.