Scope of Work

A Professional Development Partner

Effective professional development is designed to meet local needs, to build local capacity, and is ongoing and job-embedded. The NTC offers a variety of trainings that can be delivered stand-alone, but we are most interested in partnering with districts to build comprehensive, professional leadership development plans that link workshop content to district goals and initiatives and that support implementation through participation in Professional Learning Communities.

The School Leadership Development team at the NTC has engaged in long-term partnerships around instructional leadership, teacher supervision, principal induction, and the development of professional learning communities in dozens of school districts across the country. The following are examples of districts in which we've done this type of work:

• U-46 School District, Elgin, Illinois
• Bellingham School District, Bellingham,Washington
• West Contra Costa School District, Alameda, California
• Montgomery County Schools, Clarksville, Tennessee
• Gilroy Unified School District, Gilroy, California

The New Teacher Center's unique model of leadership coaching, Coaching Leaders to Attain Student Success (CLASS) has been adopted and adapted by a number of entities including the following:

• University of California, Los Angeles, University of California Berkeley
• State of Alaska
• Arizona Department of Education
• San Francisco Unified School District
• Seattle Public Schools, Seattle University
• Topeka Public Schools
• Baltimore County Public Schools
• Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and San Diego County Offices of Education
• LEAD (East Bay Consortium)
• Peninsula New Administrator Project
• Chicago Public Schools

The School Leadership Development team at the NTC has provided consultation and professional development in partnership with a variety of large institutional partners including the following:

• Consortium for Educational Change (CEC), Illinois
• Association of California School Administrators (ACSA), California
• Leadership Academy, New York City Schools, New York
• Alaska State Department of Education
• New Leaders for New Schools (NLNS), New York
• Connecticut State Department of Education, Connecticut
• Mount Vernon, Washington
• Arizona Department of Education
• Pasadena Unified School District
• Chicago Public Schools
• The Stupski Foundation

In addition, the School Leadership Development team at the NTC has provided training and support to thousands of school principals and other school leaders designed around their particular needs and contexts, in districts large and small, rural and urban, across the United States.