PIC Principal Fellowship
Our innovative, two-year fellowship program is designed to connect experienced North Texas principals with multi-district peers, re-ignite their passion for the profession, and provide them with the tools and resources to inspire and lead their teams toward a campus vision.
Principals participate in monthly workshops that provide high-quality leadership development, coupled with an immersive experience in an equity-driven design thinking process that supports them as they incubate and execute a 'big idea' action project designed to drive campus improvement.
Eligibility - All applicants must currently be in the principalship at the time of application and throughout the duration of the two year program. PIC currently serves North Texas area principals.
Cost - Each participant must secure sponsorship with their district or network and approval from their supervisor to join the Cohort.
Program - All program participants must commit to fulfilling the program commitments prior to the Cohort start:
- Attend Summer Institute (~3 full days) in June
- Attend Monthly Sessions
- 1.5 days per month from August to April
- Typically full day Thursday and half day Friday
- Complete pre-session work (Average 1 hour per month)
- Participate in leadership coaching calls
- Design and implement a Design Thinking Campus Action Project
- Participate in end-of-program Leadership Collaboration event to publicly share learnings from project
- Provide data for program impact analysis
- Participate in personal and campus surveys, and share campus data for program evaluation
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On average, urban public school principals turnover every 2.5 years. This constant change in leadership, particularly at some of our community’s most challenging schools, makes it difficult to get traction on long-term academic improvements and for all students to be on a path to college and career readiness. The Principal Impact Collaborative (PIC) seeks to address this national and collective local challenge by supporting and developing public school principals, to drive higher retention, improve leadership capacity, increase job satisfaction, and ultimately, drive greater student outcomes.
Principal Impact Collaborative (PIC) believes that principals stabilize schools, and when principals stay, teachers stay. Our tested program of nearly a decade focuses on the things that matter - principal well-being, transformational leadership, and innovating to better meet the needs of today’s students.
We partner with districts to support them in taking care of their principals, so that principals can better take care of themselves and then take care of their staff and communities.
When Principals Stay, Teachers Stay
We are based at UNT Dallas. Serving North Texas Principals
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