Applications are due March 21, 2025
Principal Residency Network
Jump-Start Your Career: Become a Highly-Effective Principal
Overview
CLEE’s Principal Residency Network (PRN) is a residency-based principal certification program (PK-12), approved by the Rhode Island Department of Education, based on RIDE leadership standards. Program available in Rhode Island.
For over 20 years, PRN graduates have been prepared to immediately step into leadership roles and hit the ground running. The PRN equips graduates to foster effective collaboration in their role and build a strong community around them. They learn to share leadership with their team to empower team members in their own roles.
Through real-world experience in their residency with a mentor principal, PRN prepares aspiring leaders to improve schools by becoming strategists, data analysts, and champions of equity.
Who Should Apply
The Principal Residency Network is for Rhode Island educators who want to advance their careers as positional leaders that want to build their capacity to lead for equity.
Typical Time/Scope
1 and 2-year pathways
- Three 7-hour in-person network sessions
- Two 6-hour school visits
- Two Clinical Site Visits
- Nine 2-hour virtual cohort sessions
- Five virtual network session
- Four 90-minute Community of Practice sessions
Quick Links
PRN FAQs
I Want a PRN Application!
Join a 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
I Am Interested in PRN
The PRN Interest Form will help us to better support you as you continue to explore the PRN.
Key Takeaways
PRN Graduates will:
- Acquire real-world practice and experience leading in an educational setting, with a mentoring principal at their school site
- Learn and lead others to identify and challenge biases, engaging with colleagues and stakeholders from different backgrounds to gain new perspectives
- Become effective leaders by using collaborative tools to build community
- Apply practices which create a common sense of purpose and agency in their team through shared leadership
- Gain skills to give and receive constructive feedback, turning these valuable observations into an actionable plan for improvement and growth
- Learn to make data-driven decisions, focused on achieving equitable outcomes for each and every student
- Gain skills to give and receive feedback and make observations for learning and growth
- Learn to use data-based improvements to create more equitable outcomes for each and every student
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