We develop leaders to create schools where adults want to work, students thrive, and everyone feels valued.
Why leadership?
Leaders are essential to creating exceptional schools. But too often, leadership development is lacking or doesn’t exist at all.
We’re different.
We build brave spaces. We cultivate community. We partner with leaders to disrupt racism, inspire staff, and champion rigorous learning.
Our Values
Equity
We devote energy to disrupting inequitable patterns and practices in our work and in schools.
Partnership
We collaborate and connect to understand the nuances, needs, and opportunities to support leaders.
Impact
We hold ourselves to a high bar of excellence so that schools see the results of our work.
Our programs focus on cross-school cohorts and school-based support, often paired with individual coaching.
Pillars of Work
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Antiracism
We support leaders to see themselves and their schools differently. Through brave conversation, they explore how to lean into their values to disrupt patterns of racism.
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People
We guide participants to discover their most authentic selves and develop meaningful relationships with the people they lead. We do this through emotional intelligence and adaptive leadership.
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Academics
We partner with leaders to raise the bar of rigor and cultivate the genius in students. Our approach to planning and data is model agnostic and works with any curricular vision.
Meet Our Program Participants
Chelsea Kirk is the executive director of Goodwill Excel Center, an alternative adult high school in Washington, DC.
Brian Childs is an assistant principal at Hogan Preparatory Academy, a charter school on the east side of Kansas City.
Brandon Johnson is the principal at Social Justice School, a middle school in Washington, DC.