SREB Learning-Centered Leadership Program

SREB's aim is to create leadership programs that prepare aspiring principals and school leadership teams to aggressively lead improvement in curriculum, instruction and student achievement. The Learning-Centered Leadership Program stimulates and supports states in this effort through these major activities:

• Conducting research on the preparation and development of school principals and preparing benchmark reports that track the progress of SREB states in achieving the Challenge to Lead goal: Every school has leadership that results in improved student performance — and leadership begins with an effective school principal.

 
• Developing training modules that support aspiring principals' preparation and current principals' on-the-job application of knowledge and practices that improve schools and increase student achievement, and preparing trainers to deliver the modules through university preparation programs, state leadership academies and other professional development initiatives.
   
• Providing guidance and technical assistance to states interested in leadership redesign and keeping policy-makers aware of the urgency for change, spurring them to action and maintaining momentum by convening annual forums and disseminating publications focused on key issues.



• Assisting states to develop policies and plans for providing high-quality training and assistance to leadership teams in low-performing schools that result in improved school and classroom practices and increased student achievement.

The Learning-Centered Leadership Program includes a number of initiatives:

• Wallace Foundation Grant: SREB Improving School Leadership Initiative

 
• Wachovia Foundation Teachers and Teaching Initiative: The District Leadership Academy Project
   
• U.S. Tennessee Department of Education School Leadership Initiative

Annual Leadership Forum

For more information, e-mail Kathy O'Neill at kathy.oneill@sreb.org.