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Principal Residency Network

Jump-Start Your Career: Become a Highly-Effective Principal

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Overview

CLEE’s Principal Residency Network (PRN) is a residency-based principal certification program (PK-12), approved by the Rhode Island Department of Education, available in Rhode Island.

For over 20 years, PRN graduates have been prepared to immediately step into leadership roles and hit the ground running. The PRN equips graduates to foster effective collaboration in their role and build a strong community around them. They learn to share leadership with their team to empower team members in their own roles.

Through real-world experience in their residency with a mentor principal, PRN prepares aspiring leaders to improve schools by becoming strategists, data analysts, and champions of equity.

Who Should Apply

The Principal Residency Network is for Rhode Island educators who want to advance their careers as positional leaders that want to build their capacity to lead for equity.

Typical Time/Scope

1 and 2-year pathways

  • Three 7-hour in-person network sessions
  • Two 6-hour school visits
  • Two Clinical Site Visits
  • Nine 2-hour virtual cohort sessions
  • Five virtual virtual network session
  • Four 90-minute Community of Practice sessions

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Key Takeaways

PRN Graduates will:

  • Acquire real-world practice and experience leading in an educational setting, with a mentoring principal at their school site
  • Learn and lead others to identify and challenge biases, engaging with colleagues and stakeholders from different backgrounds to gain new perspectives
  • Become effective leaders by using collaborative tools to build community
  • Apply practices which create a common sense of purpose and agency in their team through shared leadership
  • Gain skills to give and receive constructive feedback, turning these valuable observations into an actionable plan for improvement and growth 
  • Learn to make data-driven decisions, focused on achieving equitable outcomes for each and every student
  • Gain skills to give and receive feedback and make observations for learning and growth
  • Learn to use data-based improvements to create more equitable outcomes for each and every student

Testimonials

PRN does a really good job of not making it easy, because it is actually preparing you for the job. No one is going to give you directions or a manual for exactly what you need to do. When you're in a position and you're running a school, no one is going sit down and say, ‘Congratulations! You became a principal. Here is the perfect manual and this is what you need to do and follow this script and everything will be okay.’ No, that's not going to happen. You will be challenged on your first day. This is what school leadership is.

PRN Graduate

Without PRN, I wouldn't be the leader that I am right now, and I wouldn't have my confidence to lead. My confidence is oozing out. I wouldn't have that right now if it wasn't for some of the experiences I had and the hard work I did in the program.

PRN Graduate

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