EdLeaderToolsFind your leadership experience
Look beyond job titles. Identify how you’ve supported instruction, developed colleagues, improved processes, and helped students.
For aspiring school administrators
Your next chapter
in school
leadership.
You have classroom experience. Let’s uncover the leadership within it.
Start with a free workbook to identify your strengths, build your interview examples, and prepare for your first administrative role.
Get the free leadership inventoryA practical six-page workbook. Built for your next step.
You’re already leading.Start gathering the evidence.
Your Leadership Experience Inventory
Discover what you bring.
Learn how to explain it.
You don’t need an administrative title to begin preparing. This workbook helps you take stock of the work you’ve done and connect it to the responsibilities ahead.
Build three evidence stories
Use guided worksheets to explain your contribution, the evidence of change, and what each experience taught you.
Choose your next step
Recognize gaps, identify an opportunity to grow, and prepare questions for a mentor or trusted administrator.
From responsibility to leadership
More than a title
on your résumé.
“I served as grade-level chair” tells a hiring committee your role. Explaining the problem you addressed, how you involved others, and what you learned helps them understand how you lead.
“I helped our team address inconsistent expectations for student writing by facilitating a review of student work and coordinating shared scoring discussions.”
Illustrative example. Your workbook helps you develop stories grounded in your own experience.
The experience behind EdLeaderTools
Practical guidance.
An educator’s perspective.
Built on experience in education
EdLeaderTools draws on experience across classroom teaching, school and district leadership, and graduate teaching in educational leadership.
Our resources help teachers and teacher leaders prepare for the opportunities—and responsibilities—of school leadership.
Start with what you already know
Your experience.
Your leadership story.
Your next step.
Get the free Leadership Experience Inventory, with a checklist, a worked example, three story worksheets, and a development planner.
Printable PDF + editable Word workbook.