Illinois Principals Association

Aspiring School Leader Network

The goal of the IPA Aspiring School Leader Network is to establish aspiring school leaders with the mindset, attributes, and network needed to begin to positively impact students, staffs, and communities through educational leadership. Through personal and formal learning experiences, this program will lay the foundation aspiring school leaders need to take on a school leadership position. In addition to technical knowledge of school leadership, this experience will also give future leaders an understanding of the personal and social intelligences that are critical for successful leaders.

Lynne Woodrum

Participant Outcomes

Network Team

All members of the Network Team are experienced educators and school leaders. Many of the team members have moved out of the role of building leader, some as recently as this year, yet all remain in education leadership positions.

Network Leaders

The Team Leaders will present the activities at all sessions which will be highly interactive and provide new learning, application strategies, pitfalls to avoid, reflection, and collegial sharing as well as resources and tools to support leadership development and actions. In addition, they will be available to individually support network members throughout the program.


Dr. Anthony McConnell
Superintendent
Deerfield Public Schools District 109

Dr. Scott Schwartz
Assistant Superintendent for Teaching, Learning, & Innovation
Deerfield Public Schools District 109

Resources and Tools

Participants will receive a plethora of resources and tools to build their leadership reading library and support their work as a school leader. Further details coming soon.

Dates and Cost

Dates

July 25-26 – Bloomington
October 20-21 (first full day of IPA’s Annual Conference) – Peoria
January 25 – Bloomgington
March 7 – Bloomington

Cost

$750 (includes Annual Conference Sunday reception and Monday conference. Tuesday of conference can be added on for $50)

Online Registration


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Mentoring

New principals, assistant and associate principals, and administrators face new tasks, responsibilities, and decisions on a regular basis and need an “expert” to not only coach but to mentor and provide instructional mentoring. As part of the comprehensive leadership development offered by the Illinois Principals Association, highly trained and experienced mentors are available to IPA professional development program participants and districts. Find out more here.

Program Sponsors