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Linkage, Inc.
Linkage, Inc. is a global organizational development company that specializes in leadership development.
Serving the public and private sectors, the Company provides clients around the globe with customized leadership development and strategic change solutions that include and integrate consulting, training, assessment, coaching, and benchmark research.
Linkage, Inc. collaborated with LEAD Fairfax to train and license the LEAD team for delivery of Powerful Conversations. Linkage conferences continue to be a resource for succession planning and leadership development tools. |
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Self.Site.System
The self-site-system structure provides a framework for discussing the current state of the LEAD professional development program as well as its future possibilities. The scaffolding of the LEAD professional development plan begins with year one’s Personal Mastery/Leading People strand. This strand strengthens leader reflection of self, especially as style, philosophy, strengths, and communication impact the energy and engagement of students, staff, community, and district leadership. Year two, the Leading Learning strand, builds on those understandings and skills to focus and intensify the leadership on high student achievement for all students and the continual growth of the school site as a learning community. Year three, the Leading Systems strand, creates opportunities and experiences to develop advanced leadership skills by involving school leaders in the solving of district-wide or system challenges.
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e-Lead
e-Lead is a Web site created to help school districts design quality, district-wide professional development opportunities for principals-and/or strengthen existing ones. e-Lead is a partnership of the Laboratory for Student Success and The Institute for Educational Leadership (IEL). e-Lead offers, at no cost to users, a variety of resources and guidance, including:
- Professional Development Programming (for designing and implementing principal professional development programs)
- Programs Database (a searchable database of existing quality programs)
- Leadership Library (annotated information about a number of leadership development issues and links to the latest information and resources)
LSS/IEL consider e-Lead to be a valuable resource for:
- Staff Developers
- Central Office Staff
- Organizations working with School Districts
- Principals interested in their own professional development
- Professional Development Consultants
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Cohort Design
LEAD Fairfax has been most successful in delivering the self-site-system structure through vertical and horizontal cohorts.
LEAD participants are selected and placed in groups called cohorts. The cohort participants are identified by type (i.e. the principals’ cohort) and mark a place in time (i.e. Cohort III; the third grouping of LEAD schools began receiving leadership tools in spring 2004). These cohorts participate in sequenced and layered professional development and team-building activities
Cohorts deemed horizontal involve peers in like jobs (i.e. administrative interns or support leaders) who follow a specifically structured curriculum strand (Leading People and/or Leading Learning) of professional development sessions. Each strand is customized to the needs of the particular horizontal cohort. Other cohorts are considered vertical and incorporate teams of persons holding various levels of jobs within a department, community, or school-site, who work as a cohesive learning unit while attending a specifically structured strand of professional development sessions.
During the first four years of the grant reporting period, LEAD delivered more than 600 professional development sessions to 42 cohorts groups. LEAD Fairfax’s core team conducted over 150 site visits to LEAD schools and 80+ leadership development sessions at LEAD schools. The cohort sessions, school visits, and school sessions have resulted in LEAD working directly with approximately 4,500 school personnel in FCPS.
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Knowledge Management
Knowledge Management provides presentation skills and facilitation of adult learners training as a component of building leadership capacity. Teacher and support leaders apply these skills when presenting proposals for addressing district challenges as well as when providing turn around training at school sites. Knowledge Management consults with the LEAD Fairfax team on topics relative to teacher leadership and performance.
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