Programs
Our program maximizes learning time by being entirely virtual. You and your cohort will meet with the faculty once each month. You will also meet with your Peer Consulting Group (5-6 colleagues in a situation similar to yours) to review the concepts taught in the course and their application to your present and future challenges.
Aspiring Superintendents
Partnering with Unions
The Teacher Contract – barrier or road map. Is there trust? What happens when you try to lead without it? How do you build trust?
Developing Parent Core Leadership Groups
An examination of the need to develop strategies to cut through the noise to find clear and valuable feedback from parents.
Teaming with your School Committee
The criticality of engaging them in the important work of the district as part of your leadership team.
Building your Administrative Leadership Team
Identifying the strengths of the team and strategies to build a high performing team. Are there difficult decisions that must be made? What if they are not made?
Navigating Your Municipality
Working to become an integral part of the Municipal Leadership structure without jeopardizing your independence and that of the School Committee.
Leading and Prioritizing Learning and Teaching
Analyzing the important areas of strength and weakness, and building an effective, courageous plan to drive the quality of learning and teaching for all students without compromise.
Mastering Technology
Leading sustainable technology decisions that support instruction without breaking the bank. The focus is not on your knowledge, but on developing the knowledge of the organization.
Optimizing Human Resources and Negotiations
How to think about the people-decisions that will likely define your tenure as a superintendent.
Attaining Budget and Fiscal Management
Building a budget cycle that will work no matter the economic conditions either at the state and local level that is based on trust in the process and transparency of information.
How we get in our own way – Understanding “Immunity to Change”
An experiential activity to identify the barriers of our own making to change and potential ways to move forward. This is an extraordinary coaching tool to add to your toolkit.
Final Module – Putting it All Together
“Getting on the balcony” to determine the pacing and sequence of the lessons learned.
Aspiring Cohort
$5,000
Next cohort starts in January 2023
Current Superintendents
Partnering with Unions
The Teacher Contract – barrier or road map. Is there trust? What happens when you try to lead without it? How do you build trust?
Developing Parent Core Leadership Groups
An examination of the need to develop strategies to cut through the noise to find clear and valuable feedback from parents.
Teaming with your School Committee
The criticality of engaging them in the important work of the district as part of your leadership team.
Building your Administrative Leadership Team
Identifying the strengths of the team and strategies to build a high performing team. Are there difficult decisions that must be made? What if they are not made?
Navigating Your Municipality
Working to become an integral part of the Municipal Leadership structure without jeopardizing your independence and that of the School Committee.
Leading and Prioritizing Learning and Teaching
Analyzing the important areas of strength and weakness, and building an effective, courageous plan to drive the quality of learning and teaching for all students without compromise.
Mastering Technology
Leading sustainable technology decisions that support instruction without breaking the bank. The focus is not on your knowledge, but on developing the knowledge of the organization.
Optimizing Human Resources and Negotiations
How to think about the people-decisions that will likely define your tenure as a superintendent.
Attaining Budget and Fiscal Management
Building a budget cycle that will work no matter the economic conditions either at the state and local level that is based on trust in the process and transparency of information.
How we get in our own way – Understanding “Immunity to Change”
An experiential activity to identify the barriers of our own making to change and potential ways to move forward. This is an extraordinary coaching tool to add to your toolkit.
Final Module – Putting it All Together
“Getting on the balcony” to determine the pacing and sequence of the lessons learned.
Mastering cohort
$7,500
Next cohort starts in January 2023
Executive Coaching
We believe executive coaching amplifies and reinforces learning and development. MCS’s executive coaching model begins with the context within which the superintendent finds herself, inventories the pressures that both encourage progress and impede it, then supports the selection of priorities and a path to follow. Our approach is intensive and designed to be delivered over a finite amount of time on a specific set of objectives.
Leadership Retreat Facilitation
Available to current and former members of Masterclass for Superintendents – $5,000
Building your administrative leadership team is one of the critical path duties of a superintendent. One approach is to hold a retreat during which team building, strategic planning, prioritization and tactical planning can all occur. MCS offers this service at a discounted price for their facilitation of your meeting(s).
- Facilitating Admin Leadership Team Retreats – MCS guides the team to stay on task, face the hard stuff and interrupt old patterns and practicing new approaches.
- School Committee Workshops – Building a leadership team that includes your school committee can accelerate your progress throughout the year. Let us relieve you of the burden of managing the meeting, freeing you and your team to actively participate and remain focused on the work at hand.