- What is Giving Tuesday?
- Giving Tuesday is a national effort to encourage people to give back on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving. New Leaders is devoting a whole month to raising awareness of the importance of school leadership, starting on December 2nd.
- How does the Giving Tuesday campaign work?
- We are kicking off a month-long staff fundraising campaign on Giving Tuesday and empowering New Leaders staff to share their powerful stories of why they are committed to developing transformational school leaders.
- Where does my money go?
- New Leaders is a national non-profit that develops outstanding educators into transformational principals, turning around schools in our neediest communities. Your gift will help offset the cost to recruit, train and support more of these school leaders through our Principal Partner program. The Principal Partner program provides a unique opportunity to see first-hand the power of our program through intermittent updates of one participant’s leadership journey over the course of the year.
- How do I know my donation will make a difference?
- Principals have a multiplier effect: every great principal can support 20 teachers and change the lives of 500 students. Leadership is the highest leverage investment you can make in education.
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New Leaders: Giving Tuesday
What if every child attended a great public school?
What if there were a team of leaders in each school with the skills to support academic excellence for ALL students?
What if these leaders already exist-and they need your support?
This holiday season, I hope you will join me in supporting New Leaders, a national non-profit., as part of Giving Tuesday, a national movement beginning December 2nd encourage people to give back during the holidays. New Leaders recruits outstanding educators from across the country and develops them into transformational principals and leaders for students in high-poverty schools. As a member of the Bay Area Advisory Board, I have seen what the impact of a strong school leader can be on our most under-served children.
One such leader is Frances Teso, who is the founding principal of Voices College-Bound Language Academy in East San Jose, CA. Voices is a dual immersion school that prepares students for higher education and careers by ensuring all students leave with the highly marketable skill of fluency in both English and Spanish. The dual-immersion model is an essential part of an academically rigorous, college-prep program.
Voices’ API score has climbed every year and has reached an astounding 898, making Voices one of the highest-performing dual immersion charter schools in California. People in the community are enthusiastically choosing this option for their children: with word-of-mouth outreach, the school has a waiting list of over 300 students.
After attending elementary, middle school, high school and college in East San Jose, Frances opened her school in 2007 the same neighborhood where she grew up. Frances says that when it comes to educating historically underserved students: “There is no more time for excuses. We now know what to do and how to do it. The real question is whether we are willing to do it.”
Every student deserves a Frances in his or her school. We are proud of the more than 1,600 New Leaders we have trained serving over 350,000 children in high-need neighborhoods across the country. But there are many more children in need of a great leader. By 2020, New Leaders will develop 3,000 leaders to prepare 1 million students for success in college, careers, and citizenship.
Our New Leaders need your support. This holiday season, I hope you will support New Leaders by investing in training more leaders like Frances.
Help fund the training, development, and support of transformational school leaders
New Leaders trains tomorrow’s principals. The people who join this program share a deep belief that all students can achieve at high levels – that demography is not destiny for children in low-income communities. Your gift will support New leaders so they can more adeptly transform underperforming public schools and make a real difference in the lives of students from low-income communities.
About New Leaders
New Leaders seeks to ensure high academic achievement for all children—especially students in poverty and students of color—by developing transformational school leaders and advancing the policies and practices that allow great leaders to succeed.
Why focus on great leaders? School principals are the driving force behind school improvement. One outstanding teacher isn’t enough; students require multiple years of effective teachers to reach academic excellence, especially if they have fallen behind. Strong principals have the skills to support their existing staff to become outstanding teachers and to keep the strongest educators in their schools.
New Leaders’ leadership training begins with our Emerging Leaders Program, which builds a pipeline of promising future school leaders by growing the abilities of talented educators over the course of a year to lead other adults in raising student achievement.
Many Emerging Leaders go on to join our signature Aspiring Principals Program, a rigorous, one-year residency through which we train highly motivated, results-oriented individuals to strengthen our most struggling schools. To ensure that we get the best leaders into schools, we also identify promising talent through a national admissions process.
After their residency, we support our leaders in their critical first years on the job through the Principal Institute, which employs professional learning communities and strategic one-on-one coaching for one or two years to ensure our new principals—and their students—are set up for success. And with our new Leadership Practice Improvement program, we train current school principals and their leadership teams in best practices to raise student achievement.
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