The Regional Alliance's Leadership Intiative is a collaboration with mathematics and science reform organizations in our region to provide intensive, multi-year leadership development institutes for teachers and administrators. The overarching goal of this work is to improve local and state leaders' ability to support and sustain implementation of mathematics and science education reform. The central role of leadership is to support and sustain implementation of reform that improves teaching and learning. Effective leadership development supports participants in accessing and applying these knowledge bases.
Equity is a central concern of leadership.
Leadership development initiatives should increase participants understanding of equity issues and make special efforts to recruit diverse participants. Leadership development should model good professional development design, be sustained over more than one year, and build a community of learners among participants. We will also convene a Leadership Committee consisting of the organizers of these initiatives to share information and resources such as professional development programs and providers, evaluation approaches, assessment resources, models for public engagement, and other critical materials. Also, see Leadership resources .