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After years of leading districts, developing people, navigating challenges, and making an impact, one of the most significant transitions of your career is on the horizon. But retirement doesn’t have to mean stepping away from purpose. It can mean redefining it.

IASA is excited to introduce a brand-new Professional Learning Community designed specifically for superintendents within 0–5 years of retirement.

This free web-based, guided experience will provide a meaningful space to reflect, prepare, connect, and look ahead as you begin planning for your next chapter.

Elevate was built on a belief that women superintendents lead better together. Since its launch, the professional learning community has brought together female leaders to learn, challenge one another and build the kind of relationships that sustain a career.

ELEVATE: The Business of Leadership is now enrolling, with the first session in December. This two-year PLC takes the sense of community ELEVATE has always built and sharpens it around a single focus: deeper preparation for the financial and operational demands of the superintendency.

Districts have more data than ever. The question has shifted from "do we have it?" to "can everyone use it?" Most staff weren't hired to be data analysts, and they shouldn't have to be. That gap between strong data and busy educators is one every district feels, and it's the starting point for this conversation. In this free one-hour webinar led by SchoolData.net — a Sponsored Program of IASA and IASB — we'll talk about what it looks like when data stops being something you request and becomes something you simply ask.

Rural school leadership comes with a distinct set of rewards — and a distinct set of challenges. Finding peers who truly understand both has never been easy.
This year, IASA is expanding Reimagining Rural Leadership professional learning community into four regional cohorts across Illinois — bringing together rural superintendents, principals and central office staff from the same part of the state to connect, learn, and grow together.

IASA's School for Advanced Leadership (ISAL) is unlike any professional development experience available to superintendents in Illinois because it integrates personal and professional growth plans with the cultivation of lifelong relationships.