Beyond a Job-Alike Group: A Purposeful Leadership Network for School Leaders

School leadership can be rewarding, challenging, and—at times—isolating. Riverside Learning’s Principal and Assistant Principal Leadership Network provides school leaders with a space to step away from the day-to-day demands of the principalship, engage in meaningful professional dialogue, examine leadership practice, and learn alongside colleagues who understand the work.

This network is more than a traditional job-alike group. Each of the 10 virtual meetings is rooted in The Purposeful Principal: Practices for Leading Joyful, Successful Schools by Jamie Almanzán, Aaron M. Johnson, and Graig Meyer. Every participant receives a paperback copy of the book as part of the $695 registration fee.

Together, participants will explore the book’s leadership competencies and connect them to the real challenges of leading schools. Conversations will move beyond simply discussing the chapters. Participants will reflect on their own leadership, examine systems and practices, share experiences, wrestle with difficult questions, and identify practical actions they can take in their schools.

Leadership Themes

Across the network, participants will engage with themes including:

What Makes This Network Different?

This network is designed around the belief that leadership development should be practical, reflective, collaborative, and connected to the work leaders are actually doing.

Participants will have opportunities to:

Reflect. Examine their own leadership practices, assumptions, decisions, and areas for growth.

Connect. Build relationships with principals and assistant principals from different schools and districts who share the challenges and opportunities of school leadership.

Question. Engage in honest dialogue around difficult leadership issues, including culture, equity, systems, change, conflict, adult learning, and instructional improvement.

Apply. Translate ideas from the text into concrete leadership actions that can be implemented immediately.

Challenge. Consider what it means to be an audacious principal—a leader willing to disrupt ineffective practices and create better conditions for every student.

Grow. Develop a deeper leadership toolkit while gaining perspective from colleagues and experienced practitioners.

A Professional Space for Honest Leadership Conversations

The best professional learning does not always provide easy answers. Sometimes it creates the right questions.

The Principal and Assistant Principal Leadership Network is intentionally designed to create space for authentic conversation, professional reflection, practical problem-solving, and courageous leadership thinking. Participants will be encouraged to bring real leadership dilemmas to the conversation and consider how the principles and competencies in The Purposeful Principal can inform their response.

This is a network for leaders who want to move from knowing to doing.

Included with Registration

$695 per participant

Registration includes:

Who Should Participate?

This network is designed for:

Whether you are new to school leadership or have been leading for years, the network provides an opportunity to pause, reflect, reconnect with purpose, and sharpen your leadership practice.

Come ready to read. Come ready to reflect. Come ready to question. Most importantly, come ready to lead.

Riverside Learning’s Principal and Assistant Principal Leadership Network: Beyond the Job-Alike. Beyond the Book Study. A professional learning community for purposeful, courageous school leadership.