When New Leaders enter a school, their first order of business is to diagnose the current state of academics and culture in the school and begin to create their plan of action for the year. An accurate diagnosis is the only way to create a plan that will work. By matching the needs of the school to effective principal actions and school practices, they can create a plan that will push their school – and student achievement – to the next level.
New Leaders developed the Urban Excellence Framework™ (UEF) to understand exactly what the schools achieving breakthrough gains are doing and to share that knowledge throughout our community of leaders. Armed with this knowledge and a supportive system context, we have every confidence that New Leader schools will see transformative success.
The UEF was developed based on more than 100 visits and case studies of schools that achieved dramatic gains; an extensive review of the available research on the practices of effective schools and leadership; the resources available through New Leaders’ EPIC Program; and the collective knowledge of the New Leaders staff and participants.
