Leaders
Years of leadership experience and research informs Lead Hubs customized professional development, ongoing collaboration, and coaching offerings for school and district leaders.
Impact
Training and support of the Lead Hubs is built from Lead|ED, an evidenced-based federally funded program for principals in Illinois conducted in over 130 Illinois schools, including urban, suburban, and rural. Lead|ED develops distributed leadership structures in schools by engaging teacher teams in instructional improvement efforts organized around a Cycle of Inquiry process. Principals are provided job-embedded coaching designed to build principal behaviors identified by research to impact improved instructional practice and student outcomes.
A 5-year quasi-experimental evaluation study on Lead|ED found:
Participating schools had leadership effectiveness scores on the 5 Essentials survey of 1.65 points higher, on average, than those of comparison schools.
Students that attended Lead|ED schools scored 0.065 standard deviation (SD) higher in English language arts (ELA) and 0.104 SD higher in math in spring than comparison schools.
Lead|ED schools that had developed an effective system of teacher teams working on instructional improvements were able to sustain those meetings and that instructional focus even during the COVID emergency closure period.
Lead|ED coaches reported that those schools had an easier time refocusing teachers, students, and families in learning renewal efforts, than schools that were not able to continue teacher team meetings due to the disruption of COVID.