Can Distance Bring Us Closer? A Leadership Preparation Program Evolves To Meet New Needs.

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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Can distance bring us closer?

By Megin Charner-Laird, Jacy Ippolito and James Noonan

October 2021

Preparing the next generation of school leaders is an invigorating and ever-changing enterprise, but the past year and a half have brought more change and more of the fear and uncertainty change inspires than anyone could have anticipated (Superville, 2021). We, the co-directors and core faculty of educational leadership programs at Salem State University, have reinvented our leadership programs’ routines and structures to accommodate the needs of pandemic leadership preparation while trying to keep our eyes on the core elements that make us who we are. We are now able to look back and ask: What will we maintain? Our revisions have created a new path steeped in collaboration and communication, with changes in course content and structure, a program-wide emphasis on social justice, and

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