Aspiring Teacher Leader Academy

The Aspiring Teacher Leader Academy (ATLA) is designed to strengthen the skills of teachers who desire to step into the role of a teacher leader in the near future in the District by aligning teacher leader (TL) roles and development structures to competencies and indicator skills essential for success. This will be done by supporting aspiring teacher leaders through intentional learning experiences in year-long professional development and leadership coaching throughout the school year.

Coaching

Participants in the academy will have a teacher leadership coach.  During coaching sessions, participants will create and work toward a leadership goal.

The cohort provides ATLs with the opportunity to:

  • Discover their leadership style, including strengths and areas for improvement
  • Develop essential leadership skills (communication, planning, building trust)
  • Reflect on and build emotional intelligence
  • Increase dialogue around leadership
  • Be introduced to the leadership paths available in SDP
  • Establish a network of colleagues who can be professional resources

ATLA will support classroom teachers and teacher leaders without release time in building their leadership capacity in the follow areas:

  • Instructional Coaching with classroom visits and feedback sessions
  • Analyzing and providing feedback for lesson plans
  • Analyzing school-wide data to develop Tier 1-3 support to schools, grade group teams and individual teachers
  • Creating and facilitating agendas for MTSS and PLC’s and other conversations around data.
  • Identifying and applying specific action steps to feedback sessions, MTSS and PLC’s, specifically advancing equitable outcomes for our most marginalized students (e.g., Black/African American students, students with IEPs, English Learners etc.)
  • Role playing how to coach to dissolve deficit thinking and other challenging behaviors that prevent student growth.
  • Role play to think through leadership challenges
  • Applying topics from professional development sessions to real world experiences such as  via role playing