Good morning, School Improvement Leaders or Designees,
This email is only going out to LEA leaders on our School Improvement Listserv. Please feel free to share this information with your schools.
The Utah State Board of Education (USBE) School Improvement Team, in partnership with WestEd, is excited to invite school leaders and their LEA supervisor to apply for personalized, customized change leadership coaching. LEA's and principals are encouraged to include assistant principals, interns, instructional coaches and anyone else they deem interested to attend. The program is optional and will provide individual coaching for leaders that will enhance your leadership as well as impact the growth, proficiency and achievement of students.
The program is from March 2025 to December 2025 and will include a mutually agreed upon on site, virtual, and on demand instruction, modeling, mentoring, feedback, and support to assist the school (principal and LEA supervisor are required and may also include assistant principals, instructional coach, intern) with change leadership.
Priority will be given to Comprehensive Support and Improvement (CSI) Low Performing Student Group schools followed by CSI-Low Graduation Rate and CSI-Low Performance schools and then by schools with ATSI and TSI designation. The only schools not eligible for this program are Elevate schools.
The objectives of the program are to build leadership capacity to lead change to improve student outcomes through one or more of the following areas of leadership:
- Data-Informed Teaching
- Collaborative Teams with a Focus on Efficacy
- High Leverage Strategies for Instruction
- Fearless Assessment: Meaningful Assessments as the Heart of Feedback and Instruction
- Fearless Classrooms
- Effective Use of Time and Schedules
- Culturally Responsive, yes! But Whose Culture are We Responding To
- High Quality Student Data and Effective Analysis
The selected participants will collaboratively build and plan a personalized coaching plan with a WestEd coach.
If interested or you would like to find out more information about this opportunity, please register to attend a virtual informational kickoff meeting on January 27th (3:45 - 5:30 PM) and January 28th (9:30-11:30 AM) that will be facilitated by WestED.
Participants will need to register to attend and should plan to attend both sessions. To register, please click on this link.
Please do not hesitate to reach out to Dr. Gregory Firn (gregory.firn@schools.utah.gov) if you have any questions.
Krista Hotelling
School Improvement Specialist
Utah State Board of Education
801-538-7932
