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Manassas announces new Leadership Institute to develop teacher and administrator pathways
Summary
The district will launch a Leadership Institute in 2025–26 offering three cohort pathways — teacher leadership, aspiring administrators, and aspiring principals — with a staff application window running through May 16.
Manassas City Public Schools announced a new Leadership Institute to begin in the 2025–26 school year, designed to prepare teachers and current administrators for expanded leadership roles.
Sarah Galoia, coordinator of professional learning, and Erica Loesch, professional learning coordinator, described three cohort pathways: teacher leadership (for teachers with at least two years of successful teaching), aspiring administrators (for staff seeking administrative endorsement or holding one, with three years of successful teaching required), and aspiring principals (for current assistant principals or school-based directors with two years of successful administrative experience). Sessions will be cohort-based and include division leaders as guest presenters.
The program is division-funded and offered at no cost to participants; staff will receive professional learning points that count toward licensure renewal. Applications require a statement of purpose, resume, leadership examples and recommendations. Staff said applications were due by Friday, May 16, with acceptance notices planned for May 30. The target cohort size is 20 participants for the teacher-leader and aspiring-administrator pathways and an estimated 19 participants for the aspiring-principal pathway, pending final applications.
Board members asked about diversity of applicants and long-term tracking; staff said demographic data would be analyzed after the application window closes and that program success would be measured by participants’ career progression and culminating projects. The board emphasized that participation will not be mandatory to qualify for leadership positions and that the program is intended to “grow our own” leaders from within the district.
