ACSA/NTC leadership coaching is individualized, goal-oriented, structured, rigorous and focused upon student achievement.

• Focused upon building the leadership capacity of each individual principal considering his/her background, personality, leadership style and circumstances.
• Guided by an Individual Development Plan with clearly identified annual goals, benchmarks, activities, and expected products or evidence of goal achievement.
• Provided on-site between six and eight hours each month for a two-year period with the expectation that frequent and consistent coaching is preferable to intense but infrequent coaching.
• Recorded progress in coaching logs, with coaching focused upon identified and prioritized goals, but also attends to the "issues of the day".
• Provides ongoing monitoring and feedback as well as formal mid-year progress assessment.
• Centers around building leadership, and the capacity for ongoing independent reflection and growth, anticipation, effective communication, and positive modeling but provides instruction, consultation, and collaboration when needed.
• Provides needed support in operational leadership, but consistently calls the principal to data-based examination of instruction practices and student learning.
• Structured primarily as induction, as a credential pathway, as an AB 430 practicum, as support for leadership of a Program Improvement school, as support for a QEIA principal, or as an advanced form of professional development for the veteran principal.
• Accomplished and experienced coach who is a proven educational leader, who has been trained in research-based coaching techniques and certified as one who demonstrated the ability to effectively apply coaching skills and resources.
• Provided through a dynamic, well-structured, research-based organization with a demonstrated ability to conduct routine, data-based assessments of coaching effectiveness; to adjust and improve coaching services based upon results; and to effectively adapt new research to the changing demands of California's students.