Emerging Leaders Cohorts
Grow transformational leadership. Shape the future of learning.
Emerging Leaders is a one-year cohort that provides competency-based professional learning for district leaders, building administrators, instructional coaches and teacher leaders – equipping them with the skills to drive system-wide student-centered transformation.
Professional learning with practical takeaways
- Grounded in the Portrait of a Leader, participants self-identify growth areas and design a personalized learning plan, modeling the student-centered, competency-based experiences they aim to create in classrooms.
- Driven by competency-based leadership, this collaborative network experience gives educators the time, tools and real-time support to lead transformational change.
- Maximize professional development impact with a personalized professional learning experience that goes beyond conference attendance and provides dedicated time for key team members to reflect on their leadership strategies and actively move your organization’s vision forward.
Align practice with professional learning
- Build a diverse bench of leaders ready to guide personalized, competency-based implementation.
- Establish shared language and expectations around leadership competencies.
- Strengthen alignment between district goals, instructional practices and leadership behaviors.
Being an administrator, there are just so many roles and avenues that you play. This has allowed me to sit and just think about my process and think about what I am doing and how is this impacting others? How is this empowering others? I don’t need to do this all by myself.
Marci Sanchez
Assistant Principal, Yuma Union High School
Program structure
- Two-hour monthly virtual sessions to learn and collaborate
- Monthly one-hour small-group coaching sessions
- A two-day, in-person convening with school-site visits and immersive learning
Who should join?
- District administrators
- Curriculum and instruction coordinators
- Building-level administrators
- Teacher leaders
- Instructional coaches
- Anyone leading instructional or systems-level work
FAQ
What are the learning objectives of the cohort?
- Cultivate essential knowledge, skills and mindsets for leading transformational change toward personalized, competency-based learning
- Engage in self-reflection and growth using KnowledgeWorks’ Portrait of a Leader and Navigation Tool for Scaling Personalized, Competency-Based Learning
- Design and implement a personalized learning plan to advance learner-centered practices
- Gain actionable insights and transformative leadership strategies
- Tackle complex leadership challenges through scenario-based application
- Build a dynamic network to sustain and amplify leadership growth and development
What is the commitment for participants?
The Emerging Leaders cohort runs August 2026 – July 2027 and would involve the following commitment:
- Monthly two-hour virtual collaborations
- Monthly one-hour small group leadership coaching
- Periodic asynchronous exploration and reflection (pre-work / follow up)
- Develop and pursue a personalized learning plan based on self-identified areas of growth on Portrait of a Leader competencies
- Two-day in-person convening including a half-day leadership learning lab. Location and date will be communicated as soon as possible.
What are the monthly dates for the Zoom meetings? What time will these calls take place?
Monthly meeting dates will be scheduled based on feedback from participants. A scheduling poll is being shared with all confirmed participants so these can be scheduled as soon as possible.
What is involved with the monthly work on Zoom? Is there work in between sessions?
The cohort will meet for two hours virtually via Zoom every month and will include a mixture of full group and small group facilitation. There will be some brief pre-work or homework in between sessions, such as responding to a discussion post, taking a self-assessment, exploring resources or moving forward steps in your personalized learning plan.
Upcoming cohorts
2026 Emerging Leaders Cohorts
August 2026 – July 2027
Registration opens soon.
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