Bringing organizations across the nation together to prioritize principal quality.
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We collaborate with partners to learn and share best practices nationwide.
The Principal Quality Community of Practice is an accelerator program for nonprofits focused on principal leadership as a lever for school improvement. Launched in 2018, it has allowed organizations around the U.S. to share our principal quality learning and practices with school districts in other regions of the country. The program maintains partnerships with over 15 organizations nationwide. It uses a cohort-based model to create collaborative spaces and advance projects that rapidly transform principal quality. See examples of materials from previous Community of Practice meetings here.
By the Numbers
15
Organizations working together to improve education by investing in school leaders
1.5M
Students impacted by this collaboration
12
Communities served through the program
History of the Program
In 2018 and 2019, supported by The Joyce Foundation, we successfully ran a pilot Principal Quality Community of Practice. This resulted in the launch of two district departments of principal quality and several principal-focused programs throughout the country.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Principal Quality Community of Practice continued to build on these relationships, allowing members to communicate and discuss how the pandemic affected their districts and communities. It also began to identify how the principal role had begun to adapt in response to the significant changes school districts were experiencing in the U.S.
Today, the Principal Quality Community of Practice continues to identify best practices for supporting school leaders in a set of state and district contexts. As organizations process and discuss real issues facing their communities, we have found it is always productive to share what we have learned from our work and identify common challenges as well as solutions.