We invest in educational leadership by providing open access to experiences and resources intended to inspire leaders to grow and sustain themselves and their thriving school communities.

Invest

Invest in the success of educational leadership

We connect education leaders by cultivating professional networks of diverse educators and connecting them to each other through interactive, enriching professional gatherings.

Connect

Connect education leaders to each other

We amplify and extend brilliant ideas by elevating and supporting the voices, ideas, unique experiences, expertise, and collective learnings of education leaders for the benefit of all.

Amplify

Amplify and extend brilliant ideas

Invest

In collaboration with the leadership team of school networks, we bring capacity and expertise to develop clear and equitable leadership pipeline strategies. We conduct dozens of stakeholder interviews and focus groups with current and aspiring leaders to identify challenges and opportunities, support leadership teams in setting their vision and leadership goals, develop professional learning experiences to support those goals, and create practical performance management systems aligned to the vision and goals. Our partnerships result in thorough plans and ongoing support for communicating strategy, leading change during rollout, and continued coaching during implementation. 

Connect

We actively connect people in our networks through the power of cohorts and group learning. In the spring of 2020, we launched a series of virtual group discussions for education leaders around the country, and continue to offer these interactive experiences to workshop issues and share expertise with each other. These opportunities provide a key connection point for leaders to develop new and ongoing professional relationships that extend beyond the collective learning experiences. We are thrilled by the overwhelmingly positive feedback we have received from leaders about how working together and leveraging each other’s strengths has pushed their thinking and changed their practice. We continue to expand and vary these professional enrichment opportunities on a regular basis to form deeper connections among a community of values-aligned educators committed to mutual professional development.

Amplify

Through our codification work, we partner with education leaders and school-based experts to capture their innovative ideas and school models. We ask questions and listen to a wide range of stakeholders to get a broad and deep sense of the essentials while researching options for making their thinking visible and implementable in other contexts. By collecting the nuances of their approach, language, and culture, we help schools build internal capacity, and then share and attribute the ideas, models and practices more widely with other schools across the country. We take what we learn and design a solution to organize and deliver strategies, resources, and professional learning experiences for our partner and for other schools that want to adopt or incorporate the innovations. Our work serves as a foundation for a continuous cycle of innovating models and practices among school leaders who are doing amazing work. We are proud to elevate, attribute, and support their voices, ideas, unique experiences, and expertise.