| The program is implemented relying on various instructional strategies.
Challenges - Learning primarily takes place through carefully crafted ‘challenges’. Challenges are simulated problems or dilemmas that focus on realistic, day-to-day issues, events, and scenarios that school principals confront. The challenges are deliberately designed to enable participants to learn how to assess a situation, determine what they already know and what they will need to know, and to learn how to identify and utilize sources of knowledge, skill and values that will enable them to wrestle with real-life problems productively.
School Based Interventions - Each principal analyzes his/her school, relying on multiple data sources to develop a strategic plan. During the program, participants choose one or more strategic initiatives for implementation, directed toward their strategic action plans. Lessons learned from the various strands and challenges are practiced and implemented in the participants’ schools as they relate to specific strategic initiatives and interventions.
Coaching - A central component of this program is peer coaching. Each of the PLAN class members is paired with an experienced and highly effective principal. The “coaching principals” serve as peer coaches and guides throughout the learning process. Principals also have opportunities to shadow their coaching principals and problem solve throughout the year.The coaches also serve as key advisors to the principals as they implement specific strategic initiatives in their schools. Because one key aim of this instructional strategy is that participants understand the coaching process, they are provided ample tools and time to dissect and reflect on what is happening during this stage of their development
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Challenges are presented in Learning Legacy Cycles.
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