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80% of our schools grow at least one performance band on their state report cards after one year.
Empowering school leaders nationwide — Join the movement today!
Unlock instructional excellence with expert coaching —Book a session now!
Two main areas are transformational Instructional Leadership Teams (ILT) and comprehensive coaching cycles. Participants learn how to conduct high-impact weekly ILT meetings, sharpening their skills around supervision of instruction so they can strategically deploy and distribute leadership. They learn tools and protocols for ILT meetings, including The Impact Team’s weekly ILT Impact Meeting agendas (proprietary), Daily Impact Huddle questions (proprietary), and supporting tools to capture action steps and progress (co-created with schools as they learn).
Further, principals and attending ILT members lay the foundation for their coaching cycles, work alongside an Impact Team consultant to establish key planning structures, set up observation and feedback schedules, prepare for data-driven instructional cycles, and establish strong adult and student culture systems.
During the Summer Academy, The Impact Team trains principals on comprehensive data systems and the Data Meeting Protocol (proprietary). We foster the understanding that analysis without action has no meaning. Equally, though, acting without effective analysis is peremptory at best and futile at worst. In unpacking and teaching our Data Meeting Protocol, we illustrate what analysis and action planning look like. To ensure internalization, and maximize implementation, we also provide real data and writing samples, so that principals can practice and are coached on how to use the Data Meeting Protocol effectively within a safe, supportive space before the school year starts.
The Impact Team Summer Academy Specialists also share with school leaders our comprehensive data and progress monitoring systems so they have an understanding of what they are creating and why. The initial exposure to the tracking and monitoring tools, as well as observing how they are used by The Impact Team, prepares leaders for key systems they will implement for rapid and sustained growth. This catalyst for school leaders’ focus for the year also promotes calibration and alignment across the school and the Collaborative around which data tools, how they are used, and how they measure impact.
