Your Course of Study
Building on the highly acclaimed PELP model, the HBS and HGSE faculty will engage district teams in dynamic discussions on how to establish a culture of collaboration, high expectations, and accountability for their school systems. This groundbreaking curriculum equips participants with new leadership and management skills and the knowledge to develop strategic goals that deliver measurable results. Participants also will have numerous opportunities to interact with other multilevel leadership teams from across the country. Core topics include:
Making Strategy and Coherence Concrete
- Apply a framework to help district leaders understand how their cultures, systems, and environments reinforce one another and support strategy implementation across all schools
- Build a coherent organization that enables people at all levels to implement their piece of the strategy
- View districts as integrated systems with interdependent parts that directly link to the work of teachers and students in the classroom
- Establish a collaborative process for designing a plan that principals and teachers can use effectively
Attracting and Retaining the Best People
- Develop and manage human capital
- Recruit the best people for hard-to-staff schools
- Align the recruiting process with the district strategy
- Improve leadership capabilities at all levels
Managing for High Performance
- Build strategies for effective, long-term administrative performance
- Apply performance data to guide decisions and measure accountability
- Allocate resources to align with achieving strategic goals
Creating A Culture of Performance
- Establish a culture of performance that values results more than efforts
- Analyze data to improve performance
- Motivate the best teachers and administrators to take on the most challenging assignments