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Powerful shared learning that drives new practice
LSI’s Leadership Academy is a transformative, collaborative experience that supports your district initiative to deepen instructional rigor in every classroom.
The Academy creates a community of practice, free of judgment or fear, where a cadre of 75 educators can share their plans, strategies, and results as they implement a rigorous instructional model in their schools.
Some even start to serve as drop-in models of effective core instruction for others, providing inspiration and implementation support long after the Academy ends. Particularly successful schools may become an LSI Schools for Rigor showcasing live growth to other schools in your district and beyond.
Leadership Academy has given our leaders a language, focus and structure to support the systems shift to instruction that is student-centered with rigor for all students.
As a district, we are now all speaking the same language regarding rigorous instruction.
The Academy helps enact systemic, organizational, and practical change. It creates a cohort of influential advocates and instructional leaders who spread hope, strategies, and determination.
The Leadership Academy does more than gather passionate educators to pool their knowledge, share experiences, and develop a shared vision of great teaching and learning. It builds district capacity for change by bringing together instructional leaders from every level, from superintendents to teacher leaders: anyone who will be responsible for leading implementation.
When teams come together for whole-group learning, magic happens. Suddenly everyone has a better understanding of how practice and goals must align across each school and the district.
Research tells us that even the most experienced instructors grow when they regularly interact with a peer network.
Through the Leadership Academy, your team will collaborate, share practices, and review results and data among a close-knit community of colleagues. They’ll dive deep into a cycle of professional learning to get results that last beyond initial implementation.
One of the things the Leadership Academy has provided for us is consistent training districtwide. You have to have consistency to prevent schools from becoming islands. Pulling in the teacher coaches to go to the Leadership Academy trainings is so helpful because they can then take what they’ve learned back to their individual buildings so there is consistency across the district.
Training is customized to meet your specific district needs and to ensure sustainble implementation of the Essentials for Achieving Rigor.
The Academy meets roughly five times in a year for face-to-face training, action planning, collaborative sharing, and reflection. Multiple year plans are possible.
Members acquire the latest research-based strategies from renowned and recognized experts, with a heavy focus on how to implement those strategies, practice, and feedback.
Each community of practice collaborates online between sessions to bounce ideas off the community, root out practices that aren’t working, and refine those that are.
Teachers will learn how to implement strategies and close learning gaps. Leaders will learn to interpret observational data and provide feedback to spur next steps and sustain momentum.
We encourage you to contact us to learn more about the leadership academy for your school or district. You may find the piece to the puzzle that you've been missing.