May 28, 2019
Creating transformational learning communities with a fierce commitment to educational equity and excellence requires hard work and strong leadership. Over the past five years, SRI has been working diligently to identify the best practices for helping educators dive into conversations about educational equity and excellence to help them change and improve their instructional practice to serve all students. We began to notice a trend – the places with the greatest success had one key element in common – strong leadership helping guide the work around equity and excellence.
This data informed the development of the SRI Leadership Academy. This brand new opportunity invites school, district, and nonprofit leaders to engage in a year-long cohort experience to support them to design and implement concrete, achievable goals to transform their schools and organizations.
Classroom teachers can have substantial impact on the learning of students, and the choices they make in their instructional practice are critical to student success. However, without strong leadership at the school and district level, change is inconsistent and develops only in pockets. With strong leadership, the culture of the school and organization changes, and focusing on issues of equity becomes the responsibility of the entire community.
Applications for the inaugural cohort of SRI Leadership Academy Fellows are open, and have been extended to June 7th. I invite you to consider joining this unique learning experience that will help you design and implement the changes needed to ensure that all students are successful. You will meet both in-person and virtually with your fellow cohort members in a customized reflective learning community. We will learn together, utilizing an improvement science framework combined with the SRI Educational Equity and Excellence Learning framework. Not only will you grow your leadership, but you will design and implement new practices that move your school or organization into specific action to disrupt student inequities.
Click here to learn more and apply for the inaugural cohort. Remember, applications close June 7th and space is limited.
Have questions or want to learn more? Email Deirdre Williams (deirdre@schoolreforminitiative.org).
If not you, then who? If not now, then when? Our students need us to grow our capacity to support and implement change and I hope you will join us in this commitment.
Sincerely,
Dr. Deirdre Williams
Executive Director
