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“Form 990-EZ, Part III, Line 28 - Program Service Accomplishments VIRGINIA PRINCIPALS MENTORING PILOT GRANTSummary - Working collaboratively with the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE), the Virginia Association of Secondary School Principals (VASSP), Virginia Association of Elementary School Principals (VAESP), and Virginia Foundation for Educational Leadership (VFEL) are currently piloting a new mentoring program for school administrators. Additional support is being provided to VFEL and VASSP by the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP). VFEL is serving as the fiscal and administrative agent for the pilot with a grant provided by the Virginia by the Virginia Department of Education.Titled the Virginia Principals Mentoring Pilot (VPMP), this program will serve two purposes. First, the VPMP will provide principals with knowledge, skills, and support from their initial appointment throughout their beginning three-year period. Second, the VPMP will establish a platform to train mentors to work with newer principals within that beginning three-year period.Most importantly, VPMP Principals are participating in high quality, targeted professional development that assists in the transition to school leadership, examines the realities of principal-ship, and provides individualized support. The mentoring program will establish a safe space for beginner principals to grow in their role; problem solve and engage in an impactful way with peers.The pilot proposal discussions began in August 2023 with representatives from VDOE, VASSP, VAESP, and VFEL. Administering of the pilot began in the spring of 2024 and is scheduled to end February 2025.Scope of the Work - The first leg of the research-based VPMP is a six-month Leading Learning Training (LLT) based on Pillars, Practices, and Priorities for Effective Principals for Elementary and/or Middle School Principals or Building Ranks Focuses on Building Culture, Leading Learning - NASSP (LLT) for Secondary and/or Middle School Principals. Middle school principals will be able to select the model that best fits their needs (i.e., K-8 Principal vs a 6-8 Principal). All mentors will receive the same training as the principals. For a future scale-up, mentors will already have received the training that they need to deliver quality content to principals.Leading Learning (LLT) will engage the cohort members and mentors with content matching the needs of the zero to three-year principal. The VPMP will elevate the leadership skills of new principals to navigate and transition to their new position in the education system and support principal retention. It should be noted again that MPMP will establish a job-embedded program for future first year principals and will strengthen and grow the leaders of Virginia's most valued commodity: its children. In the second leg of research-based training, each VMP principal will be assigned a Principal Support Mentor (PSM). Gimble and Gow (2021) considered mentor/coaching a key enabler for leadership development because the mentee can work privately and individually with his or her coach/mentor to develop specific leadership competencies.The Principal Support Mentors (PSM.) will incorporate strategies, research, and coaching approaches gleaned from professional training while working with their cohort principals. PSMs will be trained to provide a weekly check-in session and a monthly formal session for each assigned zero to three-year principal. These sessions will be individualized to address the principal's progress with leadership development, including job embedded questions. PSMs will provide direct, confidential, and individualized mentoring services to new principals and will assist them in applying their learning from LLT sessions. The third leg of the research-based training utilizes the Emotional Quotient Inventory 2.0(EQ-i 2.0). The instrument, a 360-degree type, will be used on VMP Principals. The instrument measures an indivi”