OH-AiPL is part of the national Advancing Inclusive Principal Leadership State Initiative supported by the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) and the Collaboration on Effective Educator Development, Accountability, and Reform (CEEDAR) Center.

A two-year professional learning program for vertical teams (i.e., ad hoc teams composed of members from a district’s central office and from one school in the district that serves as a “test” or “advance guard” school) to examine, refine, and improve building leadership team (BLT) strategies for engaging all students in learning. Vertical teams do not exist beyond the professional learning experience. Instead, lessons learned by the vertical team are incorporated into existing leadership team structures (district leadership teams, building leadership teams, teacher-based teams) for use across the district.