Alumni Coaching & Professional Development

Continued Support for Continual Improvement

After completing the LLA Fellowship, school leaders can continue to amplify their work through individualized coaching with a Leadership Coach.

This fee-for-service program focuses on a particular initiative or sustained executive coaching. Together, the LED and the school leader construct a plan of work specifically designed to advance the culture of achievement at the leader’s school. School leaders set their targets for the year, and the program includes continual benchmarking and monitoring with multiple data points to assess progress.

Leadership Pathways

The school leader and Leadership Coach tailor the hours of coaching, its scope, and timing to the leader’s needs and goals. School leaders can choose from three pathways:

Focus Initiative

One-to-three coaching cycles lasting 4–8 weeks

A targeted focus featuring frequent coaching and feedback

Best suited to spur incremental or episodic change


Extended Leadership Coaching

Full days or half-days of support, offered monthly or quarterly

Focused on continual growth and improvement

Builds on success through continual and dramatic change


Coaching & Professional Development

One or two coaching cycles lasting 4–8 weeks with periodic support and professional development session attendance

Concentrated on key components of instructional leadership, equity, and/or organizational management

Includes professional development sessions

Flexible to accommodate incremental, episodic change or continual and dramatic change