SRI Leadership Academy

“If more of us do this work, then we can really transform schools.”

This cohort-based model invites school, district and nonprofit leaders to engage in a year-long academy to support them to design concrete, achievable goals for school and organizational improvement.

Purpose

Achieving equity in schools requires strong and informed leadership to spur necessary changes within systems, organizations, and practice. It also requires engaging in deep and often difficult conversations about inequities that currently exist within these systems, organizations, and practice. In the absence of intentional conversations about equity as well as the ways in which leaders are aware of their power, privilege, and underlying assumptions the improvement process in their schools and organizations may be incremental and technical, but it will not be transformational, adaptive, and sustainable. Schools, districts, and organizations need leaders who possess the motivation, commitment, energy, knowledge, and skills to do the complex work of facilitating transformational and adaptive change. SRI’s Leadership Academy develops leaders’ capacity for complex learning to increase their organization’s capacity for change, improvement, and reinvention. 

SRI’s Leadership Learning Model focuses on three core dimensions: Equity Leadership, E-Continuous Improvement by Design, and Cultures Conducive for Change. This model combines the research-based SRI reflective learning community design with improvement science and facilitative leadership practices. The year-long experience provides an opportunity for leaders to learn and grow and design new initiatives with feedback from colleagues as they work collaboratively in reflective learning groups to improve their organizations through a continuous improvement research project. 

Goals

• Gain knowledge and skills to serve as agents of change to advance and sustain educational equity and excellence within your work context.
• Explore your racial equity journey and its impact on your capacity to lead within diverse organizations/settings.
• Develop a philosophy and a core set of goals for educational equity in your work context.
• Gain a leadership resource toolkit of protocols and strategies for implementing the E-continuous improvement process for strategic goal setting and equity-centered change activities.
• Develop strategies to sustain yourself as a leader in difficult and challenging work contexts.
• Achieve clarity and commitment to your leadership role.
• Acquire an equity leadership mindset and skill set that will enable you to address leadership challenges in achieving equity and excellence and effecting a culture for sustainable change in your respective setting.

Enrollment in the Leadership Academy includes:

• A virtual one-day SRI Continuous Improvement Planning Institute in August 2020;
• Registration for the annual SRI Fall Meeting 2020;
• Eight monthly virtual sessions where participants receive mentoring and coaching support from an SRI Leadership Advancement Coach and their cohort to discuss the progress and challenges of their continuous improvement research and engage in learning experiences related to cultivating an equity culture; and 
• A two-day virtual or face-to-face wrap-up event in June 2021.

$1,800/participant

Applications for the 2020 SRI Leadership Academy are open now. Click here to apply to join the 2020-2021 cohort.

Have questions? Please email contact@schoolreforminitiative.org or use our contact form below.

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