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Are you a KIPP School Leader in search of opportunities to engage in high-quality professional learning with your peers and broaden your network? The KIPP Principal Development Programs seek to improve outcomes for our students through intense and intentional professional development opportunities for current KIPP leaders to expand their leadership repertoires.

OVERVIEW

The Principal Development Programs provide our leaders with a variety of competency-aligned professional learning. This cohort is comprised of KIPP school leaders and partner leaders, as well as deans, coaches, chief academic officers, and other instructional leaders. In the past year, programs have included:

• The KIPP School Leader Retreat — bringing together the entire KIPP School Leader Community to engage in community building, reflection, and development. All of the activities are designed for the dual purpose of strengthening school leaders’ capacity to drive results while building trusting and critical relationships across the network.
  
  
• The Skillful Teacher II Course — designed to build leaders’ knowledge and skills for improving the practice of their teachers. The course develops leaders’ capacity to drive results and manage others through observation, coaching, conferencing, and teaching of adult learners. Leaders expand their knowledge of effective teaching practices through the study of current research and video observation of KIPP teachers. Participants also deliver and receive feedback on their teaching of adult learners.
  
  
• The DNA Project — an opportunity for a small group of leaders who wish to share case studies of ongoing issues in their leadership and receive concrete and focused feedback and support from peers. Jon Saphier (author of The Skillful Teacher and founder of Research for Better Teaching) facilitates. Meetings include spontaneous role-play to help individual leaders rehearse how to handle particular situations.

Programming changes regularly to meet the needs of KIPP leaders. If you have suggestions for future Principal Development Programs, please email kslp@kipp.org.