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- 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 3rd.
- 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.
- Why participate?
- This is an opportunity to be part of something bigger than New Leaders and send a strong message about the importance of giving back.
- 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 my organization, New Leaders, in supporting students in urban schools across the country as part of Giving Tuesday, a national movement beginning December 3rd to encourage people to give back during the holidays.
We at New Leaders recruit outstanding educators from across the country and develop them into transformational principals and leaders for students in high-poverty schools.
In New York, one such outstanding leader is Dr. Eric Blake, the principal of Science, Technology and Research (STAR) Early College High School. Since Eric became the principal in 2008, he has focused relentlessly on ensuring that his students graduate from high school prepared to be successful in college. By the end of students’ tenure at STAR, they are equipped with not only a diploma, but also a substantial number of college credits that will prepare them to enter college as advanced and confident learners.
The hard work of Eric and his staff is evident: STAR has had a graduation rate of over 90% for the last three years, including 98.6% in 2012 – far above the city average of 65%. STAR is also one of the few schools in its district that is closing the achievement gap in reading and math.
However, when reflecting on his success Eric states, “the 98.6% grad rate is not good enough. We need to get to 100%.”
Every student deserves to attend a school with a leader like Eric who believes in 100%. The great news is that we have dozens more just like him: we are currently training 61 current and future principals like Eric right here in New York, with the same grit and determination to see their students succeed no matter what. Eric himself serves as a mentor to aspiring principals, but he and other strong leaders across the country need your support.
With a contribution you can help New Leaders to create and support strong school leaders like Eric who have the skills needed to ensure a bright future for all of our country’s students.
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.
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