Office of
Leadership Development

Professional Learning for Current Leaders

SY22-23 School Leader Professional Development

Leadership Convening

The Office of Leadership Development believes in the power of convening all principals and assistant principals across the District to engage in shared learning and reflection alongside central office teams. Leadership Convening occurs on a quarterly basis, where every principal and assistant principal participates in professional development facilitated by their learning network support team and various central office departments.

Equity Leadership Professional Development Opportunities

In keeping with our vision/mission, the Office of Leadership Development provides myriad learning opportunities to support the growth of equity-centered leadership. Our students and families deserve leaders who understand the historical and contemporary manifestations of systemic racism and how it impacts the experiences of our marginalized stakeholders, and who possess the skill and will to disrupt such inequities. To that end, all of our principals and assistant principals are required to participate in one of the following each year:

• Professional learning series focused on “Self as Core,” which emphasizes leaders’ inner-standing of themselves and how systemic racism operates
• Professional learning series focused on “Micro Disruptions,” which emphasizes school-level norms, practices, and structures that perpetuate inequities and how to dismantle them
• An equity networked improvement community for equity leadership teams implementing continuous improvement strategies to advance their equity goals in their organizations
• Equity leadership think tank groups that are affinity-based (i.e. Black Women, Black Men, Latino/a/x, White, Bi-racial/AAPI/Indigenous), which are spaces for school leaders to dive into learning and conversations that center their identities in relation to their role as school leaders, and mentor each other in deep community with one another
• Culturally Responsive School Leadership Academy, an academy focused on school leaders as community-engaged leaders
• Lion’s Story, a learning series focused on the development of racial literacy as a way of navigating racial stress as equity leaders
• An equity facilitation professional learning series for all of our school leaders who co-facilitate equity professional development pathways for their peers

Additional Supplemental Opportunities Include: 

• Advisory groups focused on “Macro Disruptions,” which emphasizes system-level norms, practices, and structures that perpetuate inequities and how to dismantle them
• Not Paved for Us book circle for school leaders interested in reading the newly released text and applying their learnings to our current leadership contexts