New Leaders
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Located: New York, NY
Founded: 2000
Mission: Our mission is 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.
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Jean Desravines.
Jean Desravines assumed the role of chief executive officer of New Leaders in February 2011. Prior to his appointment as CEO, Jean served as chief officer for cities and policy at New Leaders for five years. In that role, Jean oversaw the management of all city teams, including the launch of five of the organization’s 12 sites, and the organization’s…
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Financial Data
| Overhead Ratio: 18.80% |
| Total Revenue: $37,566,563 |
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Contact Info
| Website: | http://www.newleaders.org | Address: | 30 West 26th Street |
| E-Mail: | development AT newleaders.org | New York, NY 10010, USA | |
| Phone: | 646-792-1070 | ||
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Story:
Over the past 10 years, we have trained almost 800 school leaders who are now raising student achievement and graduation rates in cities across the country. As we enter our second decade, we are making some updates to our work to improve outcomes for our students and broaden our impact as an organization. First, we are strengthening our core principal training program by developing two related programs: the Emerging Leaders Program, which grows the adult leadership abilities of promising teachers and other instructional leaders, and the Principal Institute, our new learning network model of support for New Leader Principals early in their career. Second, we are building off of our decade of learning to offer Leadership Development Services and Policy and Practice Services to a select group of system partners.
Expert Reviews of New Leaders
Evidence of Impact Summary:
New Leaders receives praise from experts due to its ability to recruit and train leaders for underserved schools and districts throughout the country.See expert comments.
Organization Strengths Summary:
Nearly every expert respondent expressed the belief the leadership is a major strength for this organization.See expert comments.
Areas for Improvement Summary:
Multiple experts noted impact as an area for improvement. Others mentioned areas like funding as scalability as worth of enhancement.See expert comments.
Expert Comments: Evidence of Impact
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They produce good leadership for schools and are highly sought after but the pickings are very slim. | ||
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New Leaders has recruited, trained, supported, and placed principals that consistently create better student academic outcomes. The principals that are produced by New Leaders create the conditions and the culture that allows for increased learning. | ||
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They have trained excellent principals for a number of school systems. | ||
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This organization is bringing a model for identifying, recruiting, training, and placing transformational school leaders in a number of the urban school systems most in need around the country. In addition to their direct impact on tens of thousands of students through the hundreds of school leaders they have placed, they have also distinguished themselves by taking a very rigorous approach to self evaluation, publishing the results of longitudinal studies on the factors that distinguish their most effective principals from their least effective principals, thereby contributing greatly to the state of knowledge in the field overall. | ||
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They have 10 years of using data to evaluate program impact and recruit exceptional school leaders to its program. They have a wide impact in 12 urban areas, increasing the size of its leadership program consistently over the course of a decade. They recognize the value of placing exceptional leaders in a variety of school settings, and in both charter and public districts. | ||
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They train smart, entrepreneurial principals to go into high-need charter, and traditional public schools. They have an alumni network that is very supportive of one another. | ||
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The field of leadership development, specifically principal development, has been directly influenced by New Leaders. They have challenged the "cartel" of principal certification relationships between schools of higher education and state departments of education, pushing all of us in this area to think more about the ultimate client of the programs--schools and districts in the US. | ||
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They are one of the few programs that effectively attracts, trains, and develops outstanding school leaders. | ||
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They have 10 years of using data to evaluate program impact and recruit exceptional school leaders to its program. They have a wide impact in 12 urban areas, increasing the size of its leadership program consistently over the course of a decade. They recognize the value of placing exceptional leaders in a variety of school settings, and in both charter and public districts. | ||
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They train leaders to go into low performing, low income area schools, driving the field's understanding of leadership development better than anyone else, as well as driving selection of great leaders. Jon Schnur, CEO, has had an impact on policy. | ||
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In 2009, 2+ New Leaders principals in K-8 schools were twice as likely as other principals to lead breakthrough gains in student proficiency scores in their schools. The cumulative impact of New Leaders over time: preliminary results indicate that students in elementary and middle schools led by New Leaders principals for at least three years are academically outpacing their peers by statistically significant margins. New Leaders are turning around our urban dropout factories, graduating students at higher rates and increasing the percent of graduates by wider margins than other schools. | ||
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They have good, solid structure in place as well as great marketing and awareness. | ||
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They have visionary leadership and quality support structure for principals. | ||
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They have strong marketing and strong policy influence. | ||
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They create an important pipeline for training principals to serve in urban schools. | ||
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Their leadership is a particular strength--Jon Schnur, the CEO, has a long term strategic vision and has done deep thinking about both scale and impact to drive their expansion. | ||
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Their former President & Chief Curriculum Officer is highly sought after and an accomplished social entrepreneur. Their current leaders are well admired by cohorts. | ||
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Their former President & Chief Curriculum Officer is highly sought after and an accomplished social entrepreneur. Their current leaders are well admired by cohorts. | ||
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Their leadership - Jon Schnur's vision -- is a strength. Though driving to implementation is harder for them, partially because the vision is often so large. | ||
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The leadership is highly engaged in innovation more broadly than just principal training. They also produce interesting and helpful research. | ||
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They have strong leadership, strong business model, and strong partnerships with significant urban districts. | ||
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They have a comprehensive national recruitment and training network. They have compelling communication and reporting on the results of their work. | ||
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New Leaders has a lot of political savey as well as a good program that has allowed them to convince the administration and Congress that they are worth funding and holding up as a best practice. | ||
Expert Comments: Areas for Improvement
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They need a faster turnaround of good leaders and need to expand states they're involved with. | ||
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They need to find a way to increase private funding so that the training and placing of a new principal does not fall so much on the districts that they serve. They need to find a way to guarantee that the principals that they are training will stay in the district that is paying for the training. | ||
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The findings of their third-party evaluation of the impact of their school leaders indicate that the majority of the school leaders they have placed have not yet produced the highest order of student achievement gains for which the organization is striving. New Leaders is accordingly digging deeper into its model and its operations in pursuit of more universally outstanding results among the school leaders it trains and places. | ||
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Not all their principals work out, and that's ok. Should they be thinking about other central office roles for talented individuals or AP roles as part of this program? | ||
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They are driving to implementation is harder for them, partially because the vision is often so large. | ||
Leadership
Jean Desravines
Chief Executive Officer
Chief Executive Officer
Before joining New Leaders, Jean served as senior counselor to the chancellor of New York City’s public school system. In that capacity, he developed and executed a comprehensive strategy to engage and communicate with key stakeholders across New York City, building support for the district’s ambitious reform agenda. He has also served as the executive director for the Office of Parent and Community Engagement, chief of staff to the senior counselor for Education Policy, and director for community relations at the New York City Department of Education, as well as director of organizational development and community programming for the Faith Center for Community Development, Inc.
Jean earned a bachelor of arts in history from St. Francis College and a master’s degree in Public Administration from New York University, where he was the recipient of the Dean’s Scholarship – the school’s most prestigious scholarship.
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