LEADERS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE

The Leading Educational Administrator Development for Excellent Rural Schools (LEADERS) Center of Excellence (hereafter “the Center”) is a collaborative initiative designed to improve school leadership practice in rural, underperforming, and high-poverty schools that have greater-than-average levels of teacher turnover in ways that will not only increase teacher retention but also improve student learning outcomes.

The leadership coaches and school leaders who participate in the Center will develop their abilities to lead, coach other leaders, and use improvement science to identify and address local problems of practice through participation in a leadership coaching community (LCC), which includes site-based professional development.