Principal Impact Collaborative at UNT Dallas

Great principals stabilize schools, and when great principals stay, great teachers stay. Our tested program of eight years focuses on things that matter - principal well-being, transformational leadership, and innovating to better meet the needs of today’s students. We partner with districts to support them in taking care of their principals, so that principals can better take care of themselves and then take care of their staff and communities. With districts managing through post-ESSER realities, where they continue to face hard decisions about whether to close schools and reduce costs amid budget cuts, we know that PIC’s mission to develop bold, equity-driven, and impactful leaders that strengthen our public schools - is more vital than ever. 

Research shows that school leadership is second only to classroom instruction in its impact on student learning, and in a recent study commissioned by The Wallace Foundation the authors write, "...it is difficult to envision an investment with a higher ceiling on its potential return than a successful effort to improve principal leadership. At the same time, our educators on the front lines are experiencing the lowest morale on record. 

According to the latest NASSP report, since the beginning of the pandemic, 79% of principals report they have been working harder, 73% report working longer hours and 62% report having a harder time doing their job than ever before. In DFW, 28% of principals report they are likely to leave the education profession in the next five years (Best in Class Principals Survey, 2021), and schools serving high poverty families are more likely to experience principal turnover.

PIC is one of the only local organizations dedicated to school leader professional development and has a track-record for effectively improving leader outcomes. 95% of PIC principals report that they feel empowered to persist in their role as school leader, and supervisors rated 1 out of 2 PIC principals in the top 15% in overall effectiveness as a campus leader, an increase of 24 percentage points in two years (2022 Cohort, End of Program Principal and Supervisor surveys).

What will your gift go towards?

The Principal Impact Collaborative (PIC) has been dedicated to serving principals since 2016. PIC equips principals with the executive leadership capacity, confidence and resilience needed to navigate the complex realities of the urban principalship and ultimately persist in their roles long-term. PIC's three-part program model combines rigorous leadership development, innovation through design thinking, and leader well-being.

We are humbled to serve these leaders and hope you will join us in expanding our principal well-being model to include experiential learning. Your gift will go directly towards principal well-being programming and resources.