Initiatives
School and District Leadership
Participants in the 2019 Gulf Coast Partnership Resident Program.
We believe educational leaders need to be dynamic and entrepreneurial change agents to make meaningful improvements in the quality of education offered in the nation's schools. Managing is not enough — increasingly leaders must rise to the challenge of changing their organizations through innovative, problem-solving strategies.
The programs offered through our leadership initiatives strive to help school leaders further develop their ability to transform education systems and drive meaningful change. We bring together the expertise of faculty, researchers, school district leaders, as well as additional resources in an effort to offer multidimensional and immediately impactful professional development programming for practicing leaders in Pre-K through grade 12 schools.
Integrating general management and leadership education with research combined with our team's experience working with schools and school district leaders, our offerings provide innovative, principled, and research-based professional development opportunities that participants can immediately put to use on the job.
The Gulf Coast Partnership Program
The Anchin Center at USF and our participating districts sponsor the Gulf Coast Partnership Program (GCP). The purpose of the GCP is to "prepare the very best first-year principals by exploring and tapping into strengths, enhancing relationships, and developing stronger systems and subsystems that enable you and your schools to achieve the excellent results you seek." Through the program, a cohort of assistant principals participates in leadership development training that leads to Florida Level II Principal Certification.
Video Resources for School and District Leaders
Welcome to "The Most Important Thing" video series, hosted by Dr. John Mann. This series asked school and district leaders, What is the most important thing you would like new and aspiring administrators to know?
The series reaches out to experienced principals, leadership development trainers, and professors. The interviews are approximately fifteen minutes long and contain tremendous information from experts in their field. Please scan the topics and listen to the exciting interviews.
If you have specific subjects that you would like to hear experts share or if you have someone you believe would be an excellent contributor to this series, please email anchincenter@usf.edu.
The Leadership Collaborative
The Leadership Collaborative is an initiative sponsored by the Anchin Center and school district professional development leaders from the west coast of Florida, including Citrus to Sarasota Counties, Polk County and the Heartland Consortium. Participants focus on issues related to professional development and discuss items of concern at the state level.