Foundations of Principal Supervision builds the leadership skills of new and experienced district leaders who supervise and support principals. When you join this program, you join a community of more than 100 principal supervisors working across 20 states, who collectively reach close to 1,000 principals and nearly 500,000 students.
The program includes four primary learning components:
Questions? Contact Ashley Lusky at alusky@nycleadershipacademy.org .
"Foundations of Principal Supervision absolutely changed my role as a principal supervisor. In the past, I would conduct a required school visit, check in, and if everything looked good, I would head to the next school. Now I observe instruction and professional learning, sit down with the principals, try to see how I can best support them, and help them reflect about their own practice in order to improve student achievement. My practice now is drastically different from how I used to operate.”
Michele serves as Executive Vice President of Client Services at the NYC Leadership Academy. She has spent her life dedicated to public education as a lever for equity and social change. Michele has facilitated multi-district Leadership Academy programs including Foundations of Principal Supervision and Coaching for Equitable Practice and has served clients such as Clark County School District, NV, NYC Department of Education, Gwinnett County Public Schools, GA, Somerville Public Schools, MA, and the Nevada Department of Education. Before joining the Leadership Academy, Michele served as the Chief of Schools for Boston Public Schools and the Sr. Director of Administrator Development for Los Angeles Unified School District. She has been a teacher, school social worker, assistant principal, and principal in the New York City Department of Education. She founded Pathways College Preparatory School: A College Board School in Hollis, NY. While getting a doctorate at Harvard Graduate School of Education in 2011, she co-founded Pursue Excellence, an education reform organization dedicated to supporting schools and districts in their use of data to improve outcomes for students. Michele is a certified coach and teacher at the Data Wise Project at Harvard, and is the founder and principal consultant for Measure Excellence Consulting, which supports leaders, schools, and districts in their efforts to engage in continuous learning and improvement.