Support for New Principals

Successful Instructional Leadership Practices that Work

Objective: To support new principals and principal mentors as they matriculate through a two-year mentoring process.

 Outcomes

• Mentor principals will provide modeling, guidance, coaching and encouragement in a one-on-one relationship to inspire new principals to help build skills and confidence.
• Mentor principals will ensure that new principals have a clear set of priorities, focused on instructional leadership and management of the learning organization.

 Structure

• Meetings will be held once a month after Leadership Council Meeting.
• The content of the sessions will include Diversity, Climate/Culture, Curriculum Development and Monitoring, and Strategic Planning. Embedded in each session will be Ethics and Technology.