CHAPTER 9 - PROTOCOL 1

Leadership Development Audit

TIME75-90 minutes

OWNERDistrict leader with principals and development partners

ARTIFACTDevelopment-system audit + one redesign priority

SUCCESS CRITERIA

The audit examines alignment, timing, application, follow-up, coaching, evidence, access, and duplication.
Formal offerings are distinguished from the larger learning ecosystem.
Leaders’ problems of practice and lived experience shape the findings.
One redesign priority has an owner, evidence, and return date.

IMPLEMENTATION STEPS

Inventory the current model

Map offerings, audiences, timing, required participation, learning modes, ownership, cost, and intended outcomes.

Trace learning to practice

Examine whether learning connects to role-specific problems, application, feedback, coaching, evidence, and refinement.

Identify friction and gaps

Locate episodic design, duplication, poor timing, access barriers, weak relevance, unsupported transfer, and missing learning modes.

Select the redesign priority

Choose one structural change and define a thirty-day first test and return evidence.

WORKING ORGANIZER

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01Inventory the current modelMap offerings, audiences, timing, required participation, learning modes, ownership, cost, and intended outcomes.What leadership development do we currently provide, require, and recognize?02Trace learning to practiceExamine whether learning connects to role-specific problems, application, feedback, coaching, evidence, and refinement.What happens after leaders attend or complete the learning?03Identify friction and gapsLocate episodic design, duplication, poor timing, access barriers, weak relevance, unsupported transfer, and missing learning modes.Where does the current model create activity without sustained growth?04Select the redesign priorityChoose one structural change and define a thirty-day first test and return evidence.What is the smallest system change that could improve learning-to-practice continuity?

Evidence to bring backReturn date

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REFLECTION PROMPTS

Whose learning needs are least visible in the current calendar?
What do we count because growth itself is harder to measure?
Which useful offering fails because the surrounding system provides no application or follow-up?

EQUITY GUARDRAILS

Do not treat all workshops or conferences as inherently ineffective; study their role in the full learning cycle.
Protect confidential leader feedback and avoid punitive use of developmental evidence.
Audit access by role, geography, race, disability, caregiving, time, and other relevant conditions.