Leadership Skill DevelopmentA clear roadmap for leaders whose calendars are already full.
Most principals and district leaders have never been given a clear roadmap for building effective teacher support into an already full schedule. Leadership Skill Development coaches the walkthroughs, the feedback and the routines that shape school culture and keep teachers, and measures growth against leveled leadership competencies.
The school week, organized around educator effectiveness.
Scroll through one week as each skill is coached. The week is rebuilt, with nothing added to it.
- Where most weeks start
No one gave principals a roadmap for this.
Meetings, email and paperwork claim the calendar before anyone schedules a classroom visit. The week fills itself, and classrooms get what is left.
- Skill · walkthroughs
Walkthroughs go on the calendar first.
Coaches work with leaders to make short, focused walkthroughs a fixed part of the week, so they see instruction every day instead of when time allows.
- Skill · feedback
Feedback the same day, while it still matters.
Leaders learn to turn what they saw into clear, specific feedback a teacher can use tomorrow, and to deliver it while the lesson is fresh.
- Skill · teacher-support routines
Routines that keep teachers growing, and staying.
PLC time, new-teacher check-ins and coaching huddles become routines rather than favors. These are the teacher-support systems that shape whether good teachers stay.
- Skill · school culture
A week that protects classroom time.
Culture work, recognition and planning the week ahead take their place, and the leader’s growth is measured against leveled leadership competencies in GroweLab. The skills stay with your leaders.
Leadership that lasts past the training day.
One-off leadership PD
- A workshop, then back to the inbox
- Generic content for every role
- Growth judged by anecdote
- Nothing connects it to teachers staying
Leadership Skill Development
- Coached in your schools, on your calendar
- Walkthroughs, feedback, routines and culture
- Measured against leveled leadership competencies
- Connected to retention and performance data in GroweLab
Leaders who grew, and schools that followed.
Through innovative coaching practices and strategic guidance, engage2learn has strengthened campus leadership capacity and contributed to measurable gains in overall student academic achievement.
“It has definitely been a super-positive experience. Through engage2learn, we were able to provide an opportunity for our leaders to grow.”
“The engage2learn coaching has been an absolutely critical piece to improving the implementation of our strategies and the things we are trying to accomplish.”
Coaching for the people who lead the coaching.
Leadership Skill Development is the coaching step for school and district leaders. It grows the leadership skills an assessment or a plan points to, and hands leaders on to peers in the Network.
- 01
Diagnose
Assessments show which leadership practices the student-outcome gap depends on.
Assessments & Software - 02
Design
The plan names the routines each school needs, with an owner for each.
Planning & Design - You are here 03
Coach
Leaders coached on walkthroughs, feedback, teacher-support routines and culture, measured in GroweLab.
Performance Improvement - 04
Connect to community
Principals, assistant principals and coaches keep learning together in the Jim Knight Impact Network.
Network & Events
Questions leaders ask.
What does Leadership Skill Development coach, specifically?
Leadership Skill Development coaches principals, assistant principals and district leaders on instructional walkthroughs, specific feedback, teacher-support routines and school culture. Leaders are coached in their own schools, on their own calendars.
How do principals fit this into a full week?
The coaching is built around the week a principal already has. Leaders learn to schedule walkthroughs, feedback and teacher-support routines first, so the work replaces lower-value time rather than adding to it.
How is leader growth measured?
Growth is measured against nationally normed, leveled leadership competencies, with documented evidence of implementation. Coaching activity is connected to teacher retention and student performance data in GroweLab.
How does this connect to the Jim Knight Impact Network?
Leaders continue learning with peers in the Jim Knight Impact Network, where principals, assistant principals and coaches work the same problems together in monthly workshops and role-specific collaboratives.
Our principals are experienced. Do they need coaching?
Experience is exactly what this coaching builds on. Even strong leaders rarely get coaching on fitting teacher support into a full week, and the routines they build become part of how the whole school runs.
Give your leaders their week back.
Tell us about your principals and the weeks they are running, and we’ll show you what coaching on walkthroughs, feedback and routines would look like in your schools.
