Innovation Programs
Give your team the space to think, grow, and transform.
PLP Leadership Fellows Program
COHORTS FOR K-12 TEACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS
Recharge your passion for education with a team of solutions-oriented leaders.
The PLP Leadership Fellows program empowers innovative K-12 teachers, coaches, and administrators to make visible change in schools using current research in brain science.
As a fellow, you will design your own passion project to make meaningful change in your practice, powered by brain science and supported by your network of like-minded fellows.
The one-year cohort program includes six in-person and one virtual professional learning sessions spaced throughout the summer and school year, personalized coaching, and a book of your choice related to the brain and learning. Act 48 and Act 45 credits are available for this program for PA participants.
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Applications for the 2026-2027 cohorts are now open.
Limited spots are available, including scholarship opportunities (new this year!).
Program dates are listed in the application links below.
Current PLP Leadership Fellows in Action
Partners include: Avon Grove SD, Bensalem Township SD, Bristol Township SD, Centennial SD, Lower Merion SD, Norristown Area SD, and Upper Dublin SD
Innovation Summit Series
FOR LEADERS OF PARTNER DISTRICTS
Each year, administrators and teachers from partner districts across our PLP Network gather to collaboratively innovate solutions to common challenges in K-12 education, through the lens of current brain science. Annual themes have included Science of Subtraction, Upstream Innovation, and The Science of How Technology Affects our Brains
Graduating PLP Leadership Fellows and PLP partners also present to each another about how they are innovatively applying brain science to improve K-12 learning and culture. Partners present about fellowship passion projects, think tank innovations, family engagement with brain science, Portraits of a Classroom and Educator, and more.
Innovation Summit in Action
Partners include: Avon Grove SD, Bensalem Township SD, Bristol Township SD, Centennial SD, Lower Merion SD, Lower Moreland Twp SD, Norristown Area SD, Perkiomen Valley SD, Radnor SD, and Unionville-Chadds Ford SD
Think Tank Program
FOR TEAMS OF INNOVATIVE EDUCATORS
Transformational change in school learning and culture requires a purposeful integration of teachers’, administrators’, and students’ voices. PLP Think Tanks provide a framework for engaging a core team of solutions-minded educators toward innovative change to improve their schools, grounded in research on how people learn and thrive.
Cross-District Think Tank Leader Team
FOR EXPERIENCED THINK TANK TEAMS
After PLP Think Tanks spend 2-3 years establishing innovative change in their schools and districts, we invite a subset of leaders from each think tank to join our cross-district leadership team. We meet with this leadership team twice each year, to coach their skills to autonomously lead their respective think tanks to innovative change grounded in brain science research.
Currently participating districts include Bensalem Twp SD, Bristol Twp SD, and Pennsbury SD.
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