Arkansas Leadership Academy Cohort Program Application: School Team Empowerment 2024-2025
The purpose of School Team Empowerment (STE) is to support individual and team growth through a differentiated approach to leadership development. STE provides professional learning and coaching opportunities for teams of school administrators, teacher leaders, and district leaders. Sessions focus on developing and nurturing collaborative teams to lead effective instructional practices. STE will include four onsite team interaction and content delivery sessions paired with a minimum of six virtual team coaching opportunities including a pre-program and a post-program virtual team coaching session. This hybrid approach allows teams the opportunity to learn in a traditional structured format while also leveraging virtual technologies to deepen personalization. Each school team will be paired with an experienced Arkansas leader/practitioner to personalize the learning and strengthen the ability to transfer theory in practice. Teams additionally have multiple opportunities to engage in virtual coaching sessions as a value-added strategy to grow leadership capacity and assist with application of learning. There is no cost for the virtual coaching opportunities.

Dates for the 2024-2025 School Team Empowerment Year are below.  Sessions 1-3 will take place at the APSRC Training Center in Little Rock, AR.  Session 4, an on-site event in partnership with ALA Reach, will take place at a location to be determined in Central Arkansas. Participation at all sessions is expected for application acceptance in addition to a letter of support from the applicant's superintendent found here.

Cohort A
September 23-24, 2024
November 13-14, 2024
January 13-14, 2025
March 12, 2025

Cohort B
September 25-26, 2024
December 2-3, 2024
January 15-16, 2025
March 12, 2025

Applications will be evaluated for relevancy of content to the participant's role, geographic representation across the state, and district representation. Decisions for acceptance will be communicated to applicants by August 9.

Please review the program intended outcomes below prior to applying:

Upon completion, participants of School Team Empowerment will be able to: 
  • Cultivate and continue effective instructional practices by operating as effective teams 
  • Understand the characteristics of effective instructional practices 
  • Understand the characteristics and practices of effective teams 
  • Understand how effective teams support effective instructional practices 
  • Address a problem of practice in a collaborative cycle of inquiry to cultivate effective instructional practices in the school 
  • Foster organizational growth by operating as effective teams 
  • Understand the characteristics, challenges, and opportunities in organizational growth 
  • Identify the challenges and opportunities in organizational growth that are present in the school 
  • Target and measure growth components 
  • Sustain organizational growth after the completion of the School Team Empowerment program

Teams should be led by a school administrator and be composed of at least 3 and up to 5 additional school personnel.
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Cohort Preference *
Team Lead First Name *
Team Lead Last Name *
Team Lead Title/ Honorary (Miss/ Mrs./ Ms./ Mr./ Dr.) 
Team Lead School Email Address *
Team Lead Current Role (Should serve in an administrative role within the building i.e. Principal/ Assistant Principal) *
Team Lead Total Years of Experience in Education *
School District *
School Campus and LEA # *
Educational Service Cooperative *
School Phone *
School Mailing Address *
School City *
State *
Zip Code *
School Type *
Grade(s) served *
School Geography *
School Performance *
Team Lead Personal Email *
Team Lead Personal Phone/ Cell # *
May we contact you via text? *
Have you previously participated in ALA programming? If so, what program? *
Names of additional team members, roles, and years of experience (Ex. Jane Knight, English Teacher, 15 years; Paul Midas, Math Facilitator, 8 years etc.)) *
Have these participants operated together as a school team/ committee prior to this program? Please explain and include how long this team has been working together. *
What outcomes/ goals do you have for your participation in the ALA School Team Empowerment program? *
What educational areas do you consider to be areas of expertise for your school? (Ex. PLC's, Science of Reading, Questioning strategies etc.) *
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