Scope of Work Overview

The goal of the ELDP is to enhance the educational and leadership capacities of public-school principals and vice-principals, with a focus on supporting continuing professional development and developing educational leadership skills. The U.S. university will conduct the following:

1. Review desk materials related to Uzbekistan School administrators – to be provided by American Councils – to develop:

a) A two-module course for public school administrators. Each module should be 72-hours long (144 total), include action planning segments, and have an accompanying trainer’s guidebook. Please see details below regarding possible module topics.

b) Content for a four-day Training of Trainers Workshop to train the Core Participant Trainers on delivering the two modules to the 280 Regional Participants. The TOT would also encompass an action planning day.

2. Travel to Uzbekistan to deliver the two 11-day long modules and the TOT to 28 Core Participant Trainers (school principals and vice-principals) in Uzbekistan who will subsequently train an additional 280 school principals and vice-principals.

3. Review and provide online feedback on the action plans developed by the 28 Core Participant Trainers both for implementing the two modules in their schools and cascading the two-module course to the 280 Regional Participants.

4. Design and implement a professional development program for 14 participants who will spend approximately two weeks in the U.S. in the fall of 2025. Participants will engage in collaborative work with U.S. counterparts, job-shadow, and observe school administration practices and instructional models, as well as delve more deeply into the topics covered in the two-module course. The program will include meetings with public education administrators and the development of a joint project to be presented at the final conference in Uzbekistan in late 2025.