Center for Leadership and Educational Equity’s Monthly eNewsletter – December 2024
Our collective power expands when we support each other to foster the unlimited potential of each and every student.
Budgeting and Planning – Unknowns and Opportunities
The educational landscape may be changing but we know the need for high quality professional learning has not. You can future-proof your district or school’s capacity to serve each student though budgeting now for the upcoming year. Using your resources wisely is essential. That is why CLEE takes the time to understand what partners need, identify services to support your goals, ensure that the professional learning meets your individual needs, and partner with you to reach success.
Identify the Service(s) that will support your goals
How do you choose what will help most to meet your specific needs? CLEE’s most in demand services can be used as a guide to help you plan for the improvements that you want to see next year:
- Continuous Improvement Training: Is your goal for your staff to collectively get better at improving their practice through implementation? We use an easy, doable, and accessible method to guide and track improvements. CLEE addresses your individual organizational needs through our training. Some examples of areas of improvement include:
- HQCM (High Quality Curricular Materials)
- MTSS (Multi-Tiered System of Support)
- Structured literacy
- SEL (Social Emotional Learning)
- Facilitator Training: Is your goal to have a strong adult learning community focused on student needs? Educators learn key skills and strategies to foster adult learning throughout the entire community with protocols and processes to keep adult learning focused on students.
- Strategic Planning: Is your goal to have your community focused together on a future that meets the needs of all students? This swift and collaborative process helps your organization create a strategic plan to anchor and focus your community into the future.
- Leadership Development: Is your goal to support a leadership pipeline through retaining your talent and building your bench of leadership? We provide one-to-one coaching, principal licensure in Rhode Island, and support your emerging leaders.
Kirsten Ebersole LaCroix, CLEE Senior Director of Program Scaling
Collaborative Partnership
We don’t just provide your professional learning, we partner with you. Our services are designed to meet your specific needs, engage educators in ways that are consistent and supportive, and impact students. We meet with you at strategic points of the work to plan, evaluate progress, and ensure that we are working to meet your most pressing learning needs.
Strengthen Your Capacity as a Leader with Personalized Coaching
CLEE offers personalized coaching for education leaders dedicated to providing each student what they need. This one-on-one partnership provides you with the tools you need to drive lasting change, from individualized coaching sessions and growth-focused observations to tailored feedback on your most pressing leadership dilemmas. Refine your practices, redesign more equitable systems, and create environments where each and every student can thrive academically and socially.
Work one-on-one with a CLEE Coach, over the course of a year, to use cycles of improvement to identify inequities and implement focused, data-driven changes. This comprehensive approach includes hands-on experiences like Instructional Equity Walks and Facilitation Observations, providing real-time feedback to help strengthen leadership skills. You will also learn to build a collaborative school culture and empower your teams to improve student outcomes.
Janelle Clarke Holley, CLEE Senior Director of Program Implementation
This transformative year of professional growth will increase your ability to:
- support teachers
- improve student achievement
- foster a culture of collaboration
- lead continuous improvement
Whether refining leadership practices, supporting staff development, or addressing systemic challenges, this coaching partnership equips you to create long-term, meaningful change.
Contact Janelle for Personalized Support
Support Educators for the Future with a Year-end Gift!
CLEE provides educators with professional learning and support to create equitable outcomes for students in our schools.
As a non-profit, CLEE relies on generous donors like you to amplify our work. Help us support educators who lead the immense task of transforming public schools into places of joyful, purposeful learning for each and every student.
Join CLEE in this important mission! We have two initiatives to support educators this year:
- Resources and services for all educators
- Scholarship fund for principal certification in Rhode Island
Become a Principal in Rhode Island in 11 Months!
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!
I Want a PRN Application!
Applications are due March 21, 2025
- Tuesday, January 14, 2025
- Tuesday, February 4, 2025
- Monday, March 3, 2025
The PRN Interest Form will help us to better support you as you continue to explore the PRN
Facilitator Training (Virtual): Facilitate Adult Learning
All of us have the ability to lead adult collaboration that increases student learning 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 improve student outcomes.
Register for Facilitator Training
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.