Support and Study Groups

Support Network for Innovative Principals (SNIP) builds personal and professional leadership capacity among school leaders.  SNIP brings together princiapls for a year-long series of facilitated discussions to reflect on the successes and challenges of the principalship.  It is a place where principals can cast aside their public personas, where they can listen to one another and speak frankly about lessons learned without feeling judged. It is a place where principals can renew their commitment to education and their drive to be the leaders every school deserves.

Model School Study Group (MSSG) consists of a core team from one school that administers a school-wide self inventory tool and then meets over the course of an academic year to focus on the identified successful practice that contributes to the school’s success. Outcomes of this process are: better school self knowledge, professional development, teachers who as PSI Associates present and coach peers at other schools and a publication that documents the school's successful practice.

Support Network for Innovative Classrooms (SNIC) involves an action-research based series of meetings that bring together same curriculum teachers around a common challenge. Through their participation in this peer network, they develop a personal study question around their practice and use one another to collect useful data, develop appropriate questions and strategies and refine their innovative adaptations through critical feedback and dialogue.

Support Network for School Excellence (SNSE) is a program in which a cohort of school (charter and district) teams come together to research, plan and implement a school improvement or accountability plan. Through the use of data, peer feedback and PSI Associate consultation the teams design a realistic, actionable plan that will have positive and lasting impact on their schools' performance.