2012-2013 TCRWP Professional Development Services

Detailed Descriptions of ServicesPrincipals as Curricular Leaders SeriesPrincipals of all schools receiving staff development services join together in a monthly conferenceseries, Principals as Curricular Leaders. This series of Wednesday conferences provides opportunitiesfor principals to attend a keynote by a recognized leader in literacy or leadership, and to work in smallstudy groups with Project leaders, hearing the newest thinking of the TCRWP and contributing to theorganization's knowledge base. Enrollment in this service is limited and requires your monthlyattendance.Principal AlliancesDuring the 2011-2012 school year, the Kornfeld Foundation partnered with TCRWP to provide theopportunity for mentorship to our NYC principals, at no cost to you. We, along with the KornfeldFoundation, are thrilled to announce the continuance of this program. Nowhere else in the country isthere such support for principals and at this time of constant new initiatives, ever-changingrequirements and intense change, never has there ever been a greater need for support for curricularleaders. We are grateful to the Kornfeld Foundation for their continued support of our principals.This alliance was developed based on the successful superintendent as mentors program where longtimeschool leaders, such as Carmen Farina, Leslie Zackman, Anna Marie Carillo, and Laura Kotch,would make half-day visits to many NYC schools in order to support, advise and aid principals ascurricular leaders. We took what was so well-regarded from this previous design and refined thestructures for Principal Alliances to ensure that the program offered support exactly aligned to yourneeds. We’ve kept the same fabulous team of superintendent mentors and added on more principalleaders, however we’ve made changes to the program which allow for more choice and matchedsupport.For the 2012-2013 school year, several principals have again agreed to be willing to align support tomatch current needs of principals. We also have several additional principals that have added in theirexpertise. We continue to have our team of superintendents who have been so successful working withus. We invite you to choose from any alliance on the list, keeping in mind that no one principal cantake on too many of these partnerships, so alliances will need to be made on a first come, first servedbasis. Your colleague will spend half a day at your school and after that you can arrange a follow upmeeting wherever is best suited for your needs--at your school, at your colleague’s school, at TC aftera Principals Conference Day, etc.After your school has been accepted as a TCRWP Project School, you will have the opportunity tosubmit your top three choices for alliances on a separate application.If you have any questions, please call Jessica @ 212-678-3579or email services@readingandwritingproject.com