The Organizational Learning Intensive is an 8-week online professional learning program for school leaders, designed to help you craft your instructional leadership game plan for the coming school year. 

In The Intensive, you'll assess your current situation, articulate your theory of action, plan your leadership work for the next 12 months, and act to implement your improvement priorities. 

In The Organizational Learning Intensive, you'll discover how to get your staff focused on a small number of key priorities, so you can make more progress—with fewer distractions—than ever before. 

Too often, school improvement efforts involve doing more—more programs, more initiatives, more drains on staff time and focus—and leaders feel the crunch more than anyone else. 

Strategy is about making choices. What we choose not to do matters as much as what we choose to pursue. 

In The Intensive, you'll get crystal clear about your key levers for change—as a leader, as an instructional staff, and as a learning organization—so you can focus on what matters most and tune out distractions.

Alignment and coherence are crucial aspects of any school improvement plan. How can you help staff see how improvement efforts fit together?

After making strategic choices, it's essential to articulate a clear theory of action (ToA).

A theory of action describes how a change effort is designed to work, and precisely how it's designed to lead to improvement. 

When you have a clear ToA, it's easier to monitor whether your efforts are working, and easier to avoid pursuing conflicting goals and initiatives.

In The Intensive, we'll explore three related kinds of ToAs:

When you've clearly articulated these three Theories of Actions, you'll have everyone on the same page, and more importantly, you'll be able to say no to anything that doesn't fit—the essence of strategic focus.

A school's instructional leadership capacity determines the pace of change. Yet in too many schools, leaders with formal titles—especially the principal—function as bottlenecks, limiting the rate of school improvement. 

We see instructional leadership capacity as an organizational property—the school's ability to make and implement operational and improvement decisions.

In The Intensive, you'll learn how to empower your staff to make the right kinds of decisions without you—so your focus can remain squarely on the big picture. You'll discover how teacher leadership can accelerate school improvement, while also improving morale and helping your best teachers increase their impact. 

The Organizational Learning Intensive is a self-paced 8-week online program.

Each week, we'll release a new video training module with powerful strategies and concepts to strengthen your leadership. 

Each module will be accompanied by an assignment which you'll complete in our private discussion forum, where you can share ideas and receive peer feedback.

The Organizational Learning Intensive is designed to help you connect your current visions, plans, and work-in-progress to a focused agenda for the next 12 months.

The Intensive is not designed to help schools start their strategic planning process from scratch. 

Instead, The Intensive is designed to help school leaders with an existing vision, mission, and strategic plan assess their current situation, and make strategic choices to implement: 

When you complete the Organizational Learning Intensive, you'll have: