#  Public Education Leadership Project 

 



## The Public Education Leadership Project

Improving the management and leadership competencies of public school leaders in order to drive greater educational outcomes.



 

 

##  Our Impact 

Over the course of the initiative, PELP has partnered with 56 urban school districts from across 27 states representing more than 5.6 million students.



 

 [ More on Our Impact arrow\_circle\_right ](/our-impact) 

 

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##  New Resources 

Each multi-media case in this series is designed to demonstrate how districts are leveraging specific dimensions of the PELP Coherence Framework to enact equity-focused change.

Scroll through to learn more.



 

 

 

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##  Executive Education 

 



  [### PELP Summer Institute

 ](/pelp-summer-institute)The PELP Summer Institute is designed for teams of eight participants, including the superintendent/CEO, and other district personnel from both the district-level and school-level leadership ranks to focus on a strategic problem of practice.

[**Read more about the PELP Summer Institute**](/pelp-summer-institute "PELP Summer Institute")



 

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  [### PELP ABC Institute

 ](/pelp-abc-institute)This program has been exclusively designed by CGCS and PELP for school board members and superintendents in member districts of the Council of the Great City Schools, the nation’s foremost coalition of large urban school systems.

[**Read more about the PELP ABC Institute**](/pelp-abc-institute "PELP Accelerating Board Capacity (ABC) Institute")



 

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##  Resources 

 



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 [### Case Studies

 ](https://pelp.fas.harvard.edu/case-studies-notes) 

 

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 [### Books

 ](https://pelp.fas.harvard.edu/pelp/books) 

 

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 [### Coherence Framework

 ](https://pelp.fas.harvard.edu/pelp/coherence-framework) 

 

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 [### Video Library

 ](https://pelp.fas.harvard.edu/pelp/video-library) 

 

 

 

 

 

 

### Get Involved 

 

If you are a superintendent or a district leader in a large U.S. school district or an active Harvard student, PELP has numerous ways to connect and engage with you.



 [ Learn more about to get involved. arrow\_circle\_right ](/get-involved) 

 



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