
We build motivation and capacity among school leaders and their staff through the use of implementation strategies within four powerful High Impact Leadership Principles.
Learn more about about our School Renewal Cycle
Principle 1: Positive Core

- Focus attention on the "why" and link it to school mission and vision.
- Adopt a growth mindset; imagine what can be!
- Adopt a growth mindset; imagine what can be!
- Profile current strengths to build upon for achieving desired state.
Principle 2: Collective Ownership

- Distribute leadership across key stakeholders
- Share responsibility among key players who know their roles and responsibilities and the vital behaviors to carry them out.
- Create social trust, where people can safely explore, grow, and adapt.
- Foster interdependence through regular activities to co-create, co-investigate, and co-develop.
Principle 3: Evidence-Based Decisions

- Investigate current student, staff, and school strengths and growth edges.
- Identify priority growth targets and set priorities for student, staff, and school.
- Monitor progress in real time. Identify measures and benchmarks for student, staff, and school priority growth targets.
- Attend to leading and lagging indicators. Combine annual, interim, and real-time measures.
Principle 4: Organizational Learning

- Reflect together; engage weekly and monthly to analyze benchmarking data and reflect on progress toward desired state.
- Question deeply; raise new questions to guide growth, adaptations, and further learning.
- Align capacity, resources, process, roles, and responsibilities to support progress toward desired state.
- Learn, adapt, and evolve. Support adult learning and protect a safe learning environment for adults and students alike.