Our Approach

Redefining How Schools Are Led

New Leaders Alumni School

For more than 20 years, New Leaders has equipped education leaders to be powerful and positive forces for change. We provide best-in-class leadership training—for teacher leaders, principals, and their supervisors—to accelerate learning for every student in every classroom, every year. 

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Katherine Acosta-Verprauskus
New Leaders Alum, 2013

We offer real-world practice.

Our job-embedded and data-driven approach to leadership development delivers breakthrough results and sustained student outcomes.

We zero in on equity.

The leaders we develop serve as an example of what is possible. They create learning environments free from bias and limitation.

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Sean McClung
New Leaders Alum, 2011

We know effective leadership.

Our award-winning Transformational Leadership Framework™ pinpoints the most effective leadership practices to improve student achievement at the system, the school, and the team level.

Through our professional learning model, school and district leaders engage in:

Cohort-based learning experiences

Leaders engage with others across their system in job-alike cohorts as they work together to establish a common language and the systems and structures required to create and implement a vision of instructional excellence and equity at scale.

One-on-one coaching sessions

Our coaching is customized to meet the needs of each leader. We use a cycle of inquiry to spur deep thinking and build the capacity of school and system leaders to reflect, analyze, and problem-solve independently.

Competency-based online modules

Competency-based online modules provide participants with a range of personalized learning opportunities to explore and advance their own leadership.

Interactive communities of practice (professional learning communities)

Community of practice sessions provide leaders with dedicated space to engage in deep discussions and rigorous activities around a particular problem of practice. Through these sessions, leader develop and hone the mindsets, skills and leadership actions required to lead more equitable schools.

Authentic practice via job-embedded practice

In alignment with adult learning theory, job-embedded practice offers opportunities for leaders to apply newly acquired skills to their work. Leaders learn to implement their strategies in real-time and utilize feedback cycles to iterate and deepen their practice.

Why Partner With New Leaders?

Strongest Evidence of Impact of Any Leadership Development Program in the Country

An efficacy study on our professional learning approach and results demonstrated our unique ability to drive system-wide learning, instruction, and equity outcomes that underscore RAND citing New Leaders as having the strongest evidence of positive impact of all leadership development programs in the country.
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Equitable Practices that Advance Learning and Achievement for ALL Children

Our programming is designed to help leaders disrupt systemic inequities that inherently exist within the school system and break down barriers to student achievement by building the capacity of diverse, equity-minded school leaders—ensuring that every child in every school has a pathway to success.
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An Unrelenting Focus on Students

We exist to serve students and do so by seeing their true potential. We bring hope and optimism, coupled with a fierce resolve, to our work. Our impact goes beyond test scores; we prepare leaders to create learning environments free from bias and limitation, restoring power to students and communities.
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Groundbreaking Research and Learning Models

We were one of the first professional learning organizations to transition to hybrid (in-person and virtual) program delivery. We have spent the past nine years redesigning and adapting our program content to better incorporate best practices around adult learning and better equip school leaders to translate theory into practice. 
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Leadership Values in Action

New Leaders staff—57% of whom identify as people of color—are former classroom instructors, principals, school system and industry leaders that average eight years of school leadership experience. We bring our deep, diverse experiences and interdisciplinary perspectives to every aspect of our work.
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