Leadership coaching is for system, site, or out-of-classroom teacher leaders who seek to grow their educational leadership and transform their schools and systems to equitably serve all students, especially those who have been historically marginalized within the educational system.
The 21CSLA Bay Area Regional Academy offers intensive, individualized leadership coaching rooted in adult learning principles, tailored to each leader's needs and context. Leaders engage in customized support aligned with 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, the coach provides structured, supported opportunities for the leader to think about their experiences, knowledge, hopes, and goals in a collaborative environment, rather than merely experiencing and reacting to daily stimuli. Our coaching process helps create new knowledge, shift attitudes and beliefs, and lead to durable 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 are matched with participants accordingly.
In areas you've identified as needs, your 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