Leadership
Great schools need great leaders. Both inside and outside of the classrorom.
Leadership Matters
Great schools need great leaders—both inside and outside the classroom. Whether you’re leading a school, considering running for school board, deepening your civic leadership in education, or serving on a charter school board, there’s a place for you to make a lasting impact.
Our leadership programs are designed to equip passionate individuals with the knowledge, networks, and skills to drive positive change in education and impact student success.
Leadership Fellows
The single biggest constraint on expanding great schools in Minneapolis is the supply of great leaders. Our Leadership Fellow program builds that supply intentionally by developing skilled leaders in five competencies that strengthen instructional quality: high expectations, collective efficacy, evidence-based instruction, trusting relationships and coherence.
Throughout the fellowship, leaders participate in;
- Professional development and a True North Leadership Retreat
- Live, in-school observations and coaching
- Peer collaboration
- Local and national school visits
- Capstone project
100%
of fellows report feeling more ready to be a successful school leader
2X
Schools led by Leadership Fellows more than doubled their score on TNTP’s Insight Survey – a measure of how teachers experience their school’s culture of teaching and learning
Changemakers
Changemakers Twin Cities brings together a diverse group of civic leaders who understand that high-quality public education and a vibrant community go hand-in-hand.
By participating in this program, current business, social and policy sector leaders will deepen their understanding of the challenges, complexities and opportunities of the K-12 educational ecosystem in the Twin Cities and inspire them to create constructive change.
Get On Board
Get on Board is an intensive leadership development program designed to support individuals as they consider running for school board. This four week program offers a chance to learn what it is like to run for a local race, build connections with like-minded leaders that care about the future of education, and inspire and support leaders who are running for school board.
This program is offered through a collaboration of Great MN Schools, Northside Achievement Zone, Voices for Racial Justice, and Ayada Leads.
100%
of participants said they would recommend this program to a friend.
Cohort 2 Participant
Stronger Conditions
Explore the many ways we are working to strengthen student success across schools in our city.