About the Program — KIPP Leadership Coaching

Our Origin Story

Eighteen years of leadership coaching at KIPP.

The coaching program began in 2009 as a pilot with just 20 leaders. Today, we serve more than 190 leaders across the KIPP network. Founded by Dr. Linda Belans, author of States of Being, the program has been shaped by visionary leadership across three eras:

Dr. Linda Belans — 2009 to 2016
Pam Moeller — 2016 to 2024
Dr. Philonda Grant — 2024 to present

About the Program

Our Definition of Coaching

Coaching is a professional, client-centered partnership designed to help leaders maximize their personal and professional potential through a thought-provoking and reflective process. Grounded in the States of Being and the International Coaching Federation's competencies, coaching honors each leader as creative, resourceful, and capable.

Leadership Coaching creates space for leaders to deepen self-awareness, reflect on identity and impact, challenge assumptions and patterns, strengthen leadership practice, and grow their capacity to lead authentically and effectively. Rather than prescribing solutions, coaching supports leaders in uncovering their own wisdom, clarifying their vision, and taking meaningful action aligned to their values and goals.

Who We Work With

We support a diverse roster of leaders, spanning school-based and regional roles:

School-based: Assistant Principals, Principals in Residence, Principals
Regional: Principal Managers, CAOs, CSOs, Talent and Operations Leaders, Directors of Leadership Development
Executive: Executive Directors, Regional Superintendents, Chief-level leaders
Emerging: 2nd-year Principals in Residence, leaders one year from school leadership

1:1 Leadership Coaching Objectives

One-on-One (1:1) Leadership Coaching provides leaders with a dedicated space for reflection, growth, and intentional action in partnership with an experienced coach. Grounded in each leader's unique goals, values, strengths, and context, coaching supports personal and professional development through tailored 50-minute sessions — strengthening the whole leader in direct alignment with KIPP's 2030 priorities and Leadership Competency Model.

Through coaching, leaders will:

Strengthen self-awareness, confidence, critical consciousness, and equity-centered practice — leading with greater authenticity, clarity, care, and purpose — and deepen alignment between their values and how they lead every day.
Build the mindsets, habits, and practices to steward strong instructional and organizational systems that support student success — creating equitable, inclusive, and thriving communities where adults and students flourish.
Leverage their own strengths while cultivating the leadership capacity of those around them — building trusting relationships, fostering distributed leadership, and strengthening long-term organizational health through ongoing partnership and accountability.
Create intentional space for reflection, visioning, and courageous growth — developing the agency, well-being, and sustainability that make lasting, meaningful leadership possible.

Coaching Packages

Coaching that fits your year.

We offer coaching packages designed to meet diverse leadership needs, schedules, experience levels, and growth goals. Each package includes a Trio Call — a structured conversation between the leader, their coach, and their manager — as a required component that deepens alignment, strengthens accountability, and connects coaching to the leader's broader development context.

Package 1 · 12 Calls

$3,900

Designed for leaders seeking a lighter coaching cadence, participating in half-year coaching, or transitioning into a monthly rhythm of reflection and support after two or more years of coaching. Not available to leaders new to their roles or new to coaching.

Most common

Package 2 · 16 Calls

$5,200

Designed for leaders seeking a consistent coaching partnership throughout the academic year, typically from August through May, with breaks aligned to holidays and school calendars.

Package 3 · 20 Calls

$6,500

Designed for leaders navigating significant leadership demands, transitions, or ambitious growth goals who would benefit from a deeper and more consistent coaching cadence throughout the year.

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Optional Add-Ons & Subsidies

Enhance your coaching with a coaching visit — available in two formats to fit your needs. Subsidies and the Pam Moeller Coaching Equity Access Scholarship help make coaching accessible across our network.

Full-day, in-person site visit: $2,800 per visit
Half-Day Virtual Strategic Planning Visit: $1,250 per visit
DLD subsidy: $5,200 available for Directors of Leadership Development
PIR subsidy: $2,500 available for Principal-In-Residence within their 2nd year
Pam Moeller Coaching Equity Access Scholarship: Limited number awarded annually to help remove financial barriers to coaching