New Principal Mentoring Series


MILE (Metropolitan Institute for Leadership in Education) has been designated an Illinois New Principal Mentoring provider, where educational mentors are provided to interact with first-year principals (mentees) and provide them with opportunities to achieve measured growth in administration.

The leadership framework that is used in MILE incorporates forty core behaviors within nine identified leadership dimensions and has been adopted from the New York City Leadership Academy’s Leadership Performance Planning Worksheet (LPPW). This tool identifies the critical areas of leadership for principals, provides a common language amongst practitioners and enables principals to identify areas of strength.

Group professional development allows first-year principals to interact with other first-year principals, while responding to the issues and challenges that many first-year principals encounter. A sample of one of our professional development sessions has been posted on this website for your perusal.

MILE provides High-Quality Leadership Mentors by:

  • Utilization of research-based best practices in education
  • Requiring reflective development
  • Encouraging varied and ongoing assessments
  • Promoting common language among practitioners
  • Reinforcing good decision-making practices

Overall, there is a definite need for school instructional leader mentoring. It provides new principals with the tools of success, while sharing ideas/experiences with other new principals.

To register for this phenomenal program or receive additional information, please contact the following individuals:

Patricia Welch, Program Coordinator
Phone:  (708) 534-4948

Lynne Hostetter, Administrative Assistant
Phone:  (708) 534-8043
Fax:  (708) 534-4963

For more mentoring information and forms, please click here




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