LEADERSHIP | RACIAL EQUITY | DIVERSITY | INCLUSION | WELL-BEING | CONFLICT | COMMUNICATION
Invest in your professional growth and development!
We’re pleased to present the M.A.S.S. Professional Learning Catalog for the 2026-2027 school year. You’ll discover a variety of learning opportunities – in-person, virtual, and hybrid – facilitated by leading scholars, practitioners, and colleagues who understand your role and the challenges you’re facing. There are sessions for superintendents, assistant superintendents, aspiring district leaders, district teams, affinity groups, roundtables, school leaders, and others.
Here are a few highlights:
Education Leadership Training
This two-part leadership development program includes a 10-hour racial equity master class (in-person and virtual) and 18 weeks of ongoing racial equity executive coaching from Dr. Benson and his team to support leaders through implementation.
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Leading Strategically for Equitable and Excellent Outcomes
This program is an 8-month cohort experience for district teams making progress on a district equity priority, updated and strengthened from the 2025-2026 pilot. Teams of three or more (Superintendent plus at least two other leadership team members) will identify a district priority—nascent or well underway—with an explicit connection to equity. Team members will think about their individual and collective leadership as they work to lead themselves, others, and the system to address the priority.
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Leading Strategically: Individual Leadership Development
This program consists of two parts:
- Two 15-hour asynchronous courses at your own pace: “Leading Strategically: Act with Intention for Impact” and “Leading Strategically: Engage with People, Context, and Power”
- Three 90-minute virtual webinars, facilitated by Rachel and Liz, designed to build community, support application of course content, and connect participants across the state. The webinars are sequenced to align with the courses.
BIPOC Affinity Leadership Network
This network (virtual and in-person) of BIPOC district leaders who are not Superintendents is designed as a high-trust, strategy-centered community of practice that supports leaders navigating the complexity of equity leadership in today’s educational and political landscape. Building on prior collaboration with M.A.S.S., this offering moves beyond connection alone and centers on sustained leadership development, real-time problem solving, and strategic navigation of organizational and political pressures.