Project Details

Agency name: George W. Bush Institute

Agency Type: Non-Profit and Foundation

Services: Strategic Communications

Client Goals

The George W. Bush Institute (GWBI), through a planning grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, worked with the Alliance to Reform Education Leadership (AREL), a network of nineteen innovative principal preparation programs operated by school districts, nonprofit organizations and universities to explore ways to select and produce a higher quality instructional school leader able to improve student achievement. Safal was engaged to perform this scope of work.

Safal Approach

The George W. Bush institute engaged Safal to create a roadmap to develop online training modules aimed at building principals’ skills as school leaders and managers of talent. The following project outcomes were achieved: 1) Establishing a strong need for online training modules to improve principals’ capacity as instructional leaders and talent managers of teachers; 2) Creating a community of some of the best minds in principal leadership development and technology, including; 3) Developing an instructional framework around performance management that addresses the question: How do principals build an effective teaching team?; 4) Developing an initial plan, including content areas and delivery mechanisms, and budget for the modules