BOSTON PRINCIPAL TRAINING
http://boston.k12.ma.us/
The Broad Foundation supports the Boston School Leadership Institute, the district's first comprehensive recruiting and training program for aspiring principals. The School Leadership Institute is profiled in the U.S. Department of Education's "Innovative Pathways to School Leadership" report and in the "Guide to Alternative Recruitment and Preparation of Educational Leaders," prepared by WestEd.

GWINNETT COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
www.gwinnett.k12.ga.us/gcps-mainweb01.nsf
The Foundation began funding Gwinnett County Public Schools' Quality Leader Plus Program to identify, train and support new principals in Georgia's largest district, just north of Atlanta. Teachers with the necessary leadership credentials are recruited for assistant principal positions and supported with training over a two-year period. One of the most promising innovations is Gwinnett's partnership agreement with Teach For America (TFA) to commit to placing specific numbers of TFA alumni in the Atlanta area as principals in the coming years.

LONG BEACH UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT
www.lbusd.k12.ca.us
The Broad Foundation is funding Long Beach Unified School District's (Calif.) Aspiring Principal Cohort program which recruits high-performing teachers with administrator certification, provides them with district-led training and coaching, and places them as assistant principals first and then as principals. Foundation funding has allowed the district to expand its pilot program launched in 2007 and add a year-long apprenticeship for participants. The expanded program, called the Aspiring Principals Apprentice Cohort, will be the source of 50 percent of new principals in the district by the fall of 2008.

NEW LEADERS FOR NEW SCHOOLS
www.nlns.org/NLWeb/
The Broad Foundation supports New Leaders for New Schools (NLNS), a bold effort to attract, prepare and support a new generation of outstanding principals for our nation's urban public schools. The program combines an intensive summer training institute focused on management and instructional leadership strategies and a year-long, full-time "medical style" residency alongside an exemplary public or charter school principal. New Leaders for New Schools currently works with districts in Baltimore, Chicago, Memphis, Milwaukee, New Orleans, New York City, Oakland and Washington, D.C. Both Time magazine and Fast Company magazine have recognized NLNS for its entrepreneurial and innovative approach to improving public education.

PHILADELPHIA PRINCIPAL TRAINING
http://www.phila.k12.pa.us/
Through the Academy for Leadership in Philadelphia Schools (ALPS), the School District of Philadelphia seeks to improve its recruitment, preparation, evaluation, training and support of leaders for all Philadelphia public schools. In addition to a year-long, school-based residency, aspiring principals participate in 40 days of interactive seminars to prepare them to lead urban schools. Forty graduates of the program are now serving in school leadership positions in Philadelphia.

PITTSBURGH PUBLIC SCHOOLS
The Broad Foundation is funding Pittsburgh Public Schools' Emerging Leadership Academy (PELA), which is part of the district's system of inter-related initiatives called PULSE. Designed to recruit, train, evaluate and retain high-quality school-level leadership, PULSE addresses the full spectrum of principal performance--from recruitment and selection to retention and evaluation. The district's principal evaluation system is unique in that it formally identifies school-level and central office accountability for performance and, through the pay for performance system, rewards excellent performance.

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, CHICAGO
Funded by The Broad Foundation, the University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC) Urban Education Leadership program has a dual purpose of (1) developing transformational school leaders for the most challenging schools in Chicago Public Schools (CPS)--high poverty, high-minority, historically low-performing schools--and (2) changing the way higher education prepares those school leaders. After a rigorous selection process, participants are enrolled as doctorate of education students for three years at UIC and placed in progressively more responsible positions in CPS, culminating with placement as a principal. The program also supports new principals through an extensive principals network.