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Assistant Principal Leadership Academy

The Assistant Principal Leadership Academy (APLA) comprises a series of
relevant, real-time professional development for current assistant principals.
Based on survey feedback, professional development such as Budget,
Professional Standards, Instructional leadership, etc., are provided. Fall,
winter, and summer offerings provide ongoing and autonomous professional
learning opportunities to support administrators and the District’s strategic
plan.

Based on the District’s assistant principals’ requests and needs this school
year, professional learning was provided via synchronous and asynchronous
virtual meetings, face-to-face training, and Assistant Principal Association meetings.
We have increased the number of offerings for each offering season based on these requests for
content and delivery types. We are on track to offer additional professional learning opportunities
through APLA for the next school year.

Clinical Educator Training

The District developed a marketing campaign to recruit experienced teachers with 3+ years of
successful teaching experience to become clinical educators to serve as mentors, cooperating
educators, and teacher leaders. To assist the mentor recruitment efforts, the District has formulated
a 1-page flier outlining what a clinical educator is and the leadership opportunities and other benefits
of becoming one. The campaign focused on motivating our existing pool of eligible experienced
teachers to consider becoming lead teachers to grow and develop our new teachers and expand
their leadership skills and experiences as they gain professional recognition and seek advancement
in the field.

During the FY22 school year, the District awarded over 200 teachers with the credentials required to
serve as mentors for new teachers and cooperating educators for pre-service students and interns
before the school year ended. The District’s efforts to provide Clinical Educator Training sessions
continued throughout the summer, with an additional 85 teachers engaged in the training. This has
increased the number of teachers who can mentor new teachers and host college interns.

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