21CSLA Individualized Leadership Coaching

Leadership coaching is for system, site or out of classroom teacher leaders who seek to grow in their profession and to transform their schools and systems so that they are equitably serving all students, especially those who are historically marginalized.

Leadership coaching in the 21CSLA Bay Area Regional Academy is an intensive, highly individualized form of professional learning that is rooted in principles of adult learning and driven by the needs and context of the leader. Leaders have the opportunity to engage in the most customized form of support that is informed and driven by their self-determined learning goals. 

Our coaches do not prescribe solutions; instead, they seek to facilitate and guide learning and growth, building on the leader's reflection and assets. In effect, what the coach provides is structured, supported opportunities for the leader to think about their experiences, knowledge, hopes and goals, rather than merely experiencing and reacting to daily stimuli. Our coaching process helps create new knowledge, shifts attitudes and beliefs and can lead to lasting change.

Each participant is thoughtfully matched with a personal coach who will mediate their growth and development as educational leaders. Coaches have experience at the site and/or systems level and matched with participants accordingly.

In areas you’ve identified as needs, your personal coach will help you:

  • Interrogate issues of equity in your school, with an emphasis on serving vulnerable and historically underserved student populations
  • Identify equity-explicit problems of practice as they arise in the return to campus
  • Create and implement plans of continuous improvement
  • Reimagine your systems by taking inventory of what has changed as a result of the pandemic and what is now possible

Scheduling 

Participants will receive 25 hours of NO COST job-embedded, goal-oriented, confidential coaching (hybrid format) between August 2024 and June 2025.

1:1 coaching sessions will be scheduled between you and your coach.

An orientation will be scheduled in August (exact date to follow).

As programming for the 24/25 school year is finalized, participants will receive updates via email.

Who Should Participate?

21CSLA programs are offered at no cost to participants employed in Title II districts and schools in six Bay Area counties: Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, and Solano.

Participants should be site or system administrators or full-release teacher leaders supporting classroom instruction.

Application

Registrations are closed for 2024–25. Sign up for our newsletter for updates.

Questions?

Contact us at 21csla_bayarea@berkeley.edu