World-Class Institute for Superintendent Excellence
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Have you just hired a new superintendent to lead the school district?
Are you an aspiring superintendent candidate, a newly appointed,
or recently established district superintendent?
Then this program is for you!
WISE is a high quality, year-long institute, designed to empower aspiring, recently hired, and newly established superintendents with the mindset, heart set, knowledge, skills, and resources needed to realize sustainable success.
Training Modules
School Board
- Developing relationships among board members
- Onboarding a new board member
- Conflict resolution strategies
- Superintendent evaluation
Business and Finance
- Timely, Transparent Fiscal Health Planning
- Budget Management
- Equitable resource distribution
- Leading rebalancing initiatives to address structural deficits
- Inheriting and/or reconciling an unbalanced budget plan
- Union negotiations
- Funding: Balancing one-time money with ongoing fiscal responsibilities
Student Performance
- Teacher collaboration & curriculum data management
- Handling chronically low performance, especially with student sub-groups
- Raising the needle on math, reading, and graduation rates at scale
Strategic Doings
- Game-changing partnerships with foundations and other external providers
- Development of strategic plans and maximizing buy-in
- Initiating long-term comprehensive changes
Leadership & Culture
- Becoming a community voice for a caring culture
- Presentation of leadership coming into an organization
- Inspiration through your “Why”
- Personal optimization for leadership, administrative shortages & teacher strikes, coaching staff members for improved performance, succession planning, systemic equity practices, and more
Crisis
- Utilizing the power of superintendency for navigating the mitigation, resolution, and dissemination of information for national, state-wide, and community-driven events
- Establishing media partnerships, including but not limited to social media, local newspaper collaborations, and national voice elevation
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The goal of WISE is to ensure that all superintendents have the support they need at the front-end of their superintendency to be successful and have the tools that foster a positive impact on equity and inclusive practices, resulting in longevity in the role, and the school district flourishing in student success.
The WISE Theory of Action is centered around the belief that when superintendents’ are provided quality research-based information in usable formats, effective tools, approaches and strategies, training in implementing effective system practice resources, and participate in an expert-led community of practice in which to discuss problems and explore new learnings – they will be notably empowered to advance improvements in their district systems – resulting in retention, improved performance, and ultimately, district-wide teacher and student success.
Graduates will be equipped with an actionable multifaceted toolkit designed to provide continuous improvement in effective district systems development and implementation. WISE provides a professional learning community of superintendents where they can brainstorm, ideate, and share a shoulder of support.
Over the year, superintendents, working in small groups of 7, will engage in 8 webinars, 1 retreat, and a school site visit. Through the retreat and school site visit, participants will build meaningful connections with each other, witness how different school systems catalyze student achievement, and learn from other superintendents how they address the diverse set of needs their community faces.
Personalized coaching to address unique system challenges and realize inspirational leadership outcomes.
Build Your Expertise
Develop your dynamic leadership presence, becoming a powerful inclusive and collaborative leader, tackling effective communication approaches to strengthen relationships.
A Learning Community
Connect with superintendents from leading innovative districts across the country to build your professional network and connect on your biggest challenges.
Adaptability
One-on-one and team coaching options throughout the program with our expert coaches, designed to develop empowering, collaborative, inspiring, and engaging leadership skills.
WISE was developed in a collaborative partnership with mentors Dr. Alan Rogers, previous Superintendent in Sacramento County and Merced City School District, and Dr. Mary Alice Heuschel, previous Superintendent of Renton School District and Deputy State Superintendent of Public Instruction for Washington State. WISE is supported by Air Tutors, an education intervention organization focusing on the research, development, and delivery of best practices in digital learning and high impact tutoring. Founded in 2016 with a mission to advance global learning, we are now serving tens of thousands of students nationwide, with partnerships in 40+ California school districts.