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Programs for Principals and Aspiring Principals

Professional development and networking opportunities to empower you as a leader.

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In collaboration with Chicago Public Schools (CPS), the charter community, and educators across the city, we offer innovative programs that combine valuable professional development with peer-to-peer support for you and your team. Our programs serve leaders of all types of schools in every neighborhood in the city — and at every stage in their careers.

Importantly, we recognize that leaders serving in schools and communities most harmed by disinvestment require more support. To serve you first, our program model is flexible and adapts based on educator feedback.

Every year, we work with 350+ of your colleagues, including principals, principal supervisors, assistant principals, and aspiring leaders. In a typical year, the educators in our programs support more than half of the city’s public school students.

Our Programs for Principals and Aspiring Principals

Affinity Groups Program

Provides Black and Latino/a/x aspiring leaders with a robust professional network, one-on-one coaching opportunities, and targeted professional development to accelerate your path to school leader roles

Design Suite

Provides the space, time, and resources to develop innovative solutions to some of your most pressing challenges through design thinking. Includes support to help you implement the solutions.

Leadership Bridge

Provides assistant principals with on-the-job professional development and individualized coaching sessions, in close collaboration with your principal, so you are ready to assume principalship within the next three years.

Malott Educator Fellowship

A two-year program that provides a learning community and targeted coaching to support the unique needs of leaders in school communities who are striving for excellence despite challenges like high student absenteeism and mobility as well as low housing security.

Masterclass Learning Series

Principal-led, half-day workshops providing you with tools and resources for budgeting, time management, equitable grading, filling Local School Council vacancies, community engagement, and more. Masterclasses are also eligible for IAA credit!

Professional Learning Communities

Principal-led, semester-long learning groups giving you access to your peers’ innovative practices and helping you create the conditions for continuous improvement in your school. Professional Learning Communities are also eligible for IAA credit!

Explore the 2024-25 Fund Program Map

As part of our 2024-25 program suite, we are working with 397 school leaders across Chicago — including principals, principal supervisors, assistant principals, and aspiring leaders — who support more than 149,000 students across Chicago. Select the program(s) to see all the corresponding participants. You can filter by program, educator role, and school type. Hovering over the individual dots provides more information about the program participant and their school. You may revert to the full data set by clicking the circle arrow above the header text.

Note: If multiple participants are from the same school, their dots are adjusted so that they do not overlap.