Case Studies

Initial Findings: Need for a leadership framework and quality, leadership development content that could be lightly adapted to build capacity around key leadership traits within the framework.

Deliverable: Led executive team discussions and co-developed a leadership framework around 7 leadership attributes and partnered with a leadership development organization to provide monthly content.

Initial Findings: Quality leadership development trainings but no clear line between them. Lack of clear framework or vision of success for leaders. Immediate need to develop aspiring principals.

Deliverable: Honed a leadership framework of 5 key leadership attributes and co-creating five 1.5 day trainings with Davis leaders based on principles of experiential learning, power of moments, and emphasizing both quality reflection and discussion.

Initial Findings: Leaders showed a desire to improve culture and leadership capacity for each individual to be their best selves.

Deliverable: Executive coaching specifically around building trust and positive culture, leading to an assets-based approach to 1:1’s for school leaders and a cohort-based leadership development focus in monthly meetings with the assistance of a partner leadership development organization.

Initial Findings 1: Education leaders felt they had the expertise they needed within the district and needed more time with one another.

Deliverable 1: Co-developed and co-delivered a strengths-based, peer coaching model, leveraging in-house coaches and district leaders to develop trainings for every monthly principal meeting.

Initial Findings 2: Classified leaders felt they were not getting enough opportunities to develop as individuals and professionals.

Deliverable 2: Through a partnership with a leadership development platform, 6 pilot groups do asynchronous leadership development work with a one-hour discussion run by a team lead who is given a script.

Initial Findings: Leaders demonstrated a desire to enhance their capacity as equity-minded leaders, beginning with a focus on improving student agency and voice.

Deliverable: Co-developed and co-delivered a mix of custom in-person and virtual trainings to assist leaders with tackling problems of practice in cohorts through the use of new and existing frameworks, quality resources, and facilitated reflection and discussion.