Monthly eNewsletter – June 2025
Our collective power expands when we support each other to foster the unlimited potential of each and every student.
Building on This Year’s Successes
As the school year ends, we have an opportunity to reflect. This is the right time to celebrate what went well and use our successes to set direction for the next year. Success provides more than motivation. It provides a roadmap to future successes. When we analyze our wins, they uncover what works and what we should carry forward.
Kirsten Ebersole LaCroix, Senior Director of Program Scaling
Reflect, Learn, and Act
Our Resource and Protocol Library has over 400 tools to help you and your team build capacity and leadership skills. Here are four to help you and your team reflect on this year’s successes and set goals for next year:
- Best Ever – Reflect on and share best work in groups to identify key qualities of successes
- Process of Developing Success – Share and analyze a successful practice to uncover what made it work so well, with the goal of applying those insights to future work.
- Success Analysis Protocol – Take turns exploring a recent success while the group helps uncover what made it stand out from routine work.
- What? So What? Now What? – Share a current success to receive focused feedback and gain new insights to support next steps.
Celebrate the wins, learn from them, and use them to lead with purpose in the year ahead.
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Connect with CLEE to Build On Your SuccessesEnd-of-Year Highlights: Top 5 Posts
As the school year concludes, we are taking a moment to highlight the resources that had the greatest impact on our community. These blog posts provided valuable insight, supported leadership growth, and strengthened collaboration across schools and teams. Below are the top five blog posts for the year:
Top 5 Blog Posts of the Year
- Create Inclusive Learning Spaces to Foster a Sense of Belonging – Practical strategies for building learning environments where every person matters.
- Top 5 Leadership Moves to Sustain Your Own Growth – Essential actions that help educational leaders maintain focus, resilience, and momentum.
- Getting into Classrooms: Instructional Rounds Drive School Improvement – Instructional Rounds promote collective professional growth and drive meaningful schoolwide improvement.
- Create Shared Vision with Strategic Planning – A collaborative approach to strategic planning that brings stakeholders together.
- Empowering Leadership: ELAP Learning – ELAP program testimonial on leadership development through reflection, collaboration, and practical application.
Thank you for your commitment to learning and leadership throughout this school year. We look forward to continuing our work together in the year ahead.
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Extending Collaboration as Advocacy
Last month, we highlighted the power of collaboration in challenging times. Collaboration is not simply a strategy; it is a safeguard. In moments when division feels overwhelming, it is easy to forget that others are doing this work alongside us. Our community continues to demonstrate that collective action moves us forward. When we lead with shared values and speak with a clear and united voice, we create meaningful impact.
We invite you to continue this work in person at the Fall Meeting.
Our gathering offers a valuable opportunity to reconnect with colleagues, recommit to our shared goals, and deepen the partnerships that sustain this work. Whether you are navigating internal challenges, external pressures, or seeking renewed energy, you will find community, strategy, and support.
We can advance together with clarity, courage, and collaboration.
Join Us at CLEE Fall Meeting 2025
November 13–14 | Rhode Island
Continue the work of collaboration and student-focused leadership in person this fall. CLEE Fall Meeting will bring together educators and leaders from across the country for two days of hands-on practice, deep reflection, and shared learning.
We will focus on facilitative leadership, adult learning, and building strong communities of practice.
Get Involved
- Facilitate a Home Group
- Present a workshop
- Help spread the word
If cost is a barrier, we encourage you to apply for a scholarship for funds offered in memory of our colleague, Dr. Jonathan Ponds.
Registration is open now
Group and early-bird discounts are available.
PRN Grads Earn Ed.D. at Johnson & Wales University
The Principal Residency Network and Johnson and Wales University have maintained a long-standing partnership to support educators in obtaining their principal certification and advanced degrees.
Please join us in celebrating two PRN Graduates and new Doctors of Education:
Dr. Danielle Mushaweh (PRN ‘23)
Dr. Danielle Poirier (PRN ‘23)
Thank You to Board Members Stepping Down
We extend our deepest gratitude to Rebeca Filomeno Nason, Phyllis Hardy and Donald Peurach for their dedicated service and invaluable contributions to our board. Each of them has brought unique perspectives, unwavering commitment, and thoughtful leadership that have helped shape the direction and success of our organization. As they step down from their roles, we recognize the lasting impact of their work and the legacy they leave behind.
We are sincerely thankful for the time, energy, and wisdom they have shared with us over the years.
Rebeca Filomeno Nason
Rebeca is the principal of Newcomer Academy. Previously, she served as the director in the Office of Multilingual Learners for the Providence Public School District, assistant principal, guidance counselor, dean, and early childhood educator. She also obtained her administrator certification through the PRN.
Phyllis Hardy
Phyllis is Executive Director of the Multistate Association for Bilingual Education-Northeast (MABE). She worked as a bilingual special educator in a public school and then as Equity and Diversity Specialist for The Education Alliance. Phyllis is a founding member of the Language Opportunity Coalition that advocated for the Seal of Biliteracy and the bilingual education, and the Coalition on Equity, Diversity and Disability.
Donald Peurach
Donald is a Professor of Educational Policy, Leadership, and Innovation at the University of Michigan and a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. His research focuses on the organization, management, and improvement of instruction, with a particular focus on network-based continuous improvement.
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