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Welcome to The Principal Center

Building Capacity for Instructional Leadership

Black Friday, November 29, 2024

8am PST / 9am MST / 10am CST / 11am EST /

In this free webinar, you'll learn how to level up for the 2025 job search. We'll explore:

  • How to level up your résumé and cover letter so you get more interviews—without needing more experience than your competitors
  • How to level up your readiness to talk about current trends & cutting-edge practices
  • How to get your application assets organized for the fast and furious hiring season
  • One action you can take now so you never get a bad reference check (this will also help you land more interviews)
  • How to prep for interviews so you're ready to give organized answers with compelling stories that convey your qualities as a leader—without rambling

Take The Instructional Leadership Challenge

Get the tools and strategies that have helped more than 10,000 leaders get into classrooms

The Professional Writing App for Instructional Leaders

Get the world's most advanced tools for teacher observation & evaluation

Want to do all of your professional writing—evaluations, observations, observations, emails, letters, and more—in a fraction of the time?


Use our autocomplete, drag-and-drop, multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank writing tool—now with the full power of ChatGPT and your evaluation criteria. 


Classroom Walkthrough Toolbox

Ready to get into classrooms? The right tools make all the difference.

At The Principal Center, we've been developing tools to help leaders get into classrooms since 2013. Now, for the first time, you can get all of our classroom walkthrough tools in one low-cost bundle:

Ed Leadership Job Application Template Bundle

Applying for admin jobs?

Get more interviews with these tools, trainings, and 10 matching résumé & cover letter templates.

Rapid Interview Prep Toolkit

Need to get ready for an upcoming admin job interview?

Webinar: 
Progressive Discipline

Systems for Protecting the Learning Environment

Evidence-Driven Progressive Discipline

The #1 Book on Classroom Walkthroughs

Now We're Talking! 21 Days to High-Performance Instructional Leadership will give you an actionable, realistic plan for getting into classrooms and having conversations with teachers that actually change their practice.

Develop Instructional Frameworks To Support Teacher Growth

Discover how to accelerate teacher growth by taking the “insider’s view” of practice, articulating key dimensions of professional judgment to create clear growth pathways for teachers at every level of fluency in Mapping Professional Practice.

About Our Membership Program

As a member of The Instructional Leadership Association you'll gain access to our library of on-demand trainings to help you build capacity for instructional leadership—plus live + on-demand access to all of our new webinar trainings.


As part of our Instructional Leadership Association Program, you’ll gain access to Repertoire, the professional writing app for instructional leaders.

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Featured Guests

Articles

The Instructional Leader’s Guide to Handwritten Notes for Teachers

Handwritten notes can be a more personal option than typing, though they can be slower and harder to organize. How can we get the best of both worlds? by Justin Baeder, PhD There’s just something special about using pen and paper for notes when you’re in the classroom: If you prefer to take handwritten observation

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The Instructional Leader’s Guide to Handwritten Notes for Teachers

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