New Leaders: Giving Tuesday
** THE NEW LEADERS “GIVING TUESDAY” CAMPAIGN GOES UNTIL DECEMBER 22nd. STILL TIME TO SUPPORT! THANKS!!! **
Hello Friends and Family!
This holiday season, my organization – New Leaders – is participating in Giving Tuesday, a national movement to encourage people to give back during the holidays.
:: A BIT ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION ::
New Leaders is a national nonprofit organization that develops transformational school leaders, with a fundamental belief that attracting and preparing outstanding principals and supporting the performance of the high-need schools they lead will help us improve K-12 education for students across the country.
Since our founding, the New Leaders community has grown from 13 educators trained in two cities to more than 800 educators trained in twelve urban areas through our Aspiring Principals Program. Here in Chicago, one of the two original city programs, our leaders currently serve over 110,000 CPS students, and our principals are seeing student achievement increases in their schools that are outpacing similar schools in the district. Many New Leaders have transformed some of the lowest-performing schools in Chicago where most students previously failed to meet standards.
:: MY ROLE ::
I have worked for New Leaders for over five years as the Executive Director for the Chicago office. I lead a talented and committed staff to recruit, select, train, and support more than 200 aspiring candidates and sitting principals. Our organization has grown tremendously over the last few years, and we are now the primary provider of principal talent to Chicago Public Schools.
:: MY REQUEST ::
In conjunction with “Giving Tuesday”, I’m asking my friends and family to support the efforts of New Leaders. I believe that investing in education is the most important thing we can do for our children and our country – and making sure every school has a great leader is the best way to make a difference. I hope you will consider a contribution and I deeply appreciate any gift you can make to support New Leaders and help change the lives of kids here in Chicago.
If you have any questions about the organization or the impact of your contribution, please reach out to me – [email protected].
THANK YOU!
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About New Leaders
New Leaders seeks to transform our country’s highest-need schools and provide all children with an excellent education through outstanding leadership. Why leadership? 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.
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 teachers and administrators 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 turn around the nation’s underperforming schools. To ensure that we get the best leaders into schools regardless of whether they currently work in education, we also identify promising talent through a national admissions process.
After the Aspiring Principals Residency, we support our leaders on the job through the Principal Institute, which employs professional learning communities and strategic one-on-one coaching for one to two years to ensure our new principals are set up for success from day one.
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