Washington State Leadership Academy

Visit our website at www.waleadershipacademy.org.

Our Purpose: 

The Washington State Leadership Academy (WSLA) is focused on higher student achievement for every child by:

• Engaging school administrators in transformative leadership practices.
• Building and supporting strong, effective teams to solve complex issues related to teaching and learning.
• Heightening education leaders' awareness and ability to self-assess the personal characteristics and practices that lead to high-performing organizations.

The Academy Believes:

• Transformative leaders can build collaborative learning systems that promote powerful teaching and learning practices.
• Improved student achievement for all students will be the result of systems that keep learning for every student as their central work.

Program Delivery:

• District-selected leadership teams will join with other districts to form Leadership Learning Teams, which will attend Academy seminars within their ESD region throughout the year.
• Academy staff and coaches will organize and facilitate seminars.
• Coaches will support each team's work by spending time in the districts and schools.
• Job-alike learning opportunities, as breakout-groups from district teams, will be provided.

Timeline:

2008-2009 - Pilot Phase of the Academy, Pilot participants begin in Fall
2009-2010 - Pilot Participants Graduate; Second group of participants begin
2010-2011 - New group of district teams begin program

Contact Information:

Washington State Leadership Academy
1021 8th Avenue SE
Olympia, WA 98501
www.waleadershipacademy.org

Carol Whitehead, Ed.D., Director
cwhitehead@waleadershipacademy.org
425-359-2618

Merrilou Harrison, Leadership Learning Specialist
mharrison@waleadershipacademy.org
509-910-7365