Principal Wellness
professional learning community
Members of the 2021 Cohort of the PWPLC meeting with partner Mrs. Tiffany Taylor, Chief People & Impact Officer for the ASU+GSV.
The Principal Wellness Professional Learning Community Consists Of:
- Monthly Group Sessions: 4 hours per session; In-person + virtual; Held on weekends
- One-on-One Coaching: 1 hour per month; Virtual; Based on personal schedules
- Group Text Messaging: On-Going Check-Ins and Support
- A stipend will be provided to help offset the time investment this opportunity requires.
Please Read More About the PWPLC Below:
The 2022 Cohort of the Principal Wellness PLC
Program Objectives:
Principals participating in the Principal Wellness Professional Learning Community (PWPLC) will have the opportunity to engage in an 11-month experience, including group learning sessions, one-on-one coaching, and more.
- These sessions will provide principals with a new framework for sustainability and transformative practices that promote healing for themselves.
- Principals will receive support from culturally responsive school leaders as they unpack experiences that result from their work as school leaders. They will have a safe space to share and process their experiences of community trauma and esteem.
- Facilitators will guide principals to identify the deep culture value systems that they operate from, and to recalibrate who they really are as principals.
- By the end of the series, participants will have developed a safe and accepting environment to explore their healing. Moreover, principals will have explored ways of deepening their capacity to heal, alleviate their stressors, identify areas of growth, and create a foundational self-care plan.
This will be a unique learning community because of its specific focus on creating a unique space for Black school leaders to regularly convene and receive social-emotional wellness and leadership support in Detroit.
Program Outcomes
Principals will leave with a support system of peers, new techniques to take care of their own mental health, new understandings of the importance of mental health in activist work, and new ways to conceptualize dismantling White Supremacy and supporting marginalized students and their families.
Principals will leave understanding the principles of Restorative Practices and how to implement those principles in the way they lead and begin to implement them in their schools.
Principals will create strategic plans that focus on the overall wellness of the school community (students, teachers, and families). They will delineate plans to develop and cultivate their school communities grounded in liberatory leadership (culturally responsive teaching, establishing authentic relationships, academic rigor, and restorative practices) as its core leadership approach and instructional framework.
Principals will have gained increased leadership efficacy demonstrated by their ability to develop and implement sustained mental and emotional wellness.
Components of Application
- Response to application questions, which includes three open-ended questions. For your brainstorming, the open-ended questions are:
■ Please share your narrative and reasons for becoming an educator.
■ How do you hope your experiences in PWPLC will benefit your Principalship and leadership development?
■ From your personal and professional experiences, why is it important to focus on the wellness of Principals?
2. Upload Resume/CV with 2-3 professional references
