Los Angeles Administrative Services Credential

LAASC is a two-year induction program focused on job-embedded, real-life learning combined with coach-based professional development (Commission on Teacher Credentialing, 2018) for principals and new administrators.

The induction experience includes 60 to 90 hours of professional learning centered on coaching, reflection, professional development, and assessment. Induction is anchored on six professional learning standards that describe critical areas of leadership that support and guide administrators into sustainable, effective practice.

The shift places a heavy emphasis on individualized coaching, 40 of the 60 hours, with the goal of developing leadership competency. The program seeks to spur much-needed systemic change throughout the district’s schools by coaching them to think systemically and act strategically to empower leadership teams to impact instructional quality and student achievement.

Coaches are intentional about data collection for program improvement. Data monitoring is critical to accomplish the program’s goal of empowering educators to be courageous and transformational leaders. Since the program’s start in 2015, 366 participants have cleared their administrative services credential coursework with support from nine coaches.

Of the 366 participants, 243 have been school site administrators, 123 have been administrators at central offices and local districts, and 32 participants have successfully been promoted into a school administrative leadership position.

The most current data from the survey candidates complete at the end of their first year in the program reports that 94.6% of participants found their coach had been instrumental to their growth as a leader, and 100% said their coach guided them to find their own solutions.