System Leader Launchpad
Align your system and school-level implementation of teams with support from your coach
Launch your system’s journey toward effective team-based models with targeted coaching in System Leader Launchpad. This experience explores critical system-level levers — such as human resources, finance, operations and scheduling — that shape sustainable implementation.
Following an initial strategy session, systems leaders will engage in four follow-up coaching conversations to support phased planning, address emerging challenges and ensure strong alignment between system and school-level implementation.
Learn moreWho it’s for: System-level leaders preparing to implement team-based models
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Format: One-hour planning call and a 3-hour workshop with your coach, followed by four coaching touch points across the year
Participants will ...
Chart your course
Develop a phased implementation roadmap tailored to your context, including how to select and support pilot schools.
Activate system-level change
Identify the strategic decisions across human resources, scheduling and operations that are essential to enabling team-based models.
Prepare school leaders for success
Plan how to set your schools and leaders up for impactful participation in the School Leader Launchpad.
FAQs
Find answers to commonly asked questions about System Leader Launchpad.
If you have additional questions, please reach out to our team at edworkforce@asu.edu.
System Leader Launchpad is designed for system-level leaders — such as superintendents, assistant superintendents and district-level administrators — who are preparing to implement team-based staffing models.
After a preliminary strategy session, your leadership team will engage in four follow-up coaching conversations to support phased planning, address emerging challenges and strengthen coherence between system strategy and school-level execution.
Your team will leave with a clear implementation roadmap, a better understanding of necessary system shifts and a plan to prepare schools for participation in initiatives like the School Leader Launchpad.
System Leader Launchpad is held virtually, beginning with a 3-hour kickoff session focused on system-level considerations, followed by four virtual coaching sessions scheduled around availability.
We recommend including key decision-makers across academics, human resources, finance and operations to ensure holistic planning and alignment.
No active implementation is required. This coaching engagement is ideal for systems in the early planning or pilot stages.
Participation is included for partners enrolled in a Next Education Workforce™ Prepare to Launch contract. If you’re not currently a partner, please contact the Next Education Workforce team to learn more about joining.
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