Lead for Learners: Leadership Development for Learner-centered Systems Change
Grow your leadership. Learn from peers. Put ideas into practice.
Leading change takes reflection, practice and people who understand the work. Lead for Learners connects educators nationwide with professional learning, practical tools and a community advancing personalized, competency-based learning.
Built in response to needs educators have shared through years of KnowledgeWorks’ work alongside schools and districts, the network brings educator experience into the design of leadership development and support. Whether you’re strengthening your own practice or helping a team grow, find opportunities shaped by colleagues navigating challenges like yours.
Designed with educators. Grounded in practice.
Those closest to the work should help shape the tools and support they need to lead it.
Through Lead for Learners, educators collaborate with KnowledgeWorks to identify challenges, set priorities and develop practical resources and professional learning. From the Portrait of a Leader to cohort experiences and peer learning, educator perspectives help connect leadership development to the realities of classrooms, schools and districts.
This collaborative approach builds on educators’ expertise and strengthens their capacity to lead change that lasts.
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Build your leadership practice with the Portrait of a Leader
What does it take to lead sustainable, learner-centered change? The Portrait of a Leader defines the attributes, knowledge, skills and mindsets that help educators move this work forward.
The second edition brings those attributes into focus through observable competencies and rubrics. Use them to reflect on your practice, identify strengths and areas for growth, set professional learning goals, or guide coaching and team development.
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Turn reflection into action with Emerging Leaders
Take your leadership development further through Emerging Leaders, a facilitated, year-long cohort that connects professional learning to the challenges you’re navigating in your school or district.
The Portrait of a Leader anchors the curriculum, with its competencies and rubrics guiding reflection, learning and a personalized development plan. Through facilitated sessions, small-group coaching and peer collaboration, you’ll strengthen your leadership practice and apply what you’re learning to advance learner-centered change.
