New Leaders for New Schools
New York City
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Program Details
Shane Mulhern, Executive Director
Key Contact: Vanessa Scott, Project Associate
Email: vscott@nlns.org
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Contact Information
New Leaders for New Schools New York City
30 West 26th Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10010
646-792-1070 x 1066
General Information: newyorkinfo@nlns.org
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Our Schools
Since 2001, our New York program has built a strong partnership with the New York City Department of Education to improve student achievement in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens by recruiting, training, and supporting the next generation of outstanding school leaders. We have also formed partnerships with charter organizations across the city to support the training and placement of leaders in New York City’s charter schools. These partnerships have been essential in our efforts to raise student achievement. As part of a pilot program in fall 2008, New Leaders also began preparing New Leaders for Newark, NJ charter schools.
New Leaders for New Schools believes that ensuring success for all children, including New York City, is not only possible, but critical to our societal and individual success. While some individual public schools in New York City are realizing student achievement gains, the district’s greatest challenge is that this kind of success is not happening at scale. With over 1 million students in 1,400 schools, the New York City Department of Education is the largest public school system in the country. However, far too many of these public schools are failing to meet the needs of our students.
Even as the district makes progress in moving schools out of improvement, NYC public schools continue to serve a significantly larger and higher-need population than many urban districts. Despite some improvements in Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) standing across some city schools, proficiency and graduation rates remain unacceptably low for minority students. While increasing each year, still only 53% of Hispanic students and 56% of African Americans are graduating from high school in NYC in four years.1
New Leaders for New Schools' New York City/Newark program envisions a day when every child will graduate from high school ready for college, career and citizenship. By 2020, 90-100 percent of students will reach that goal and contribute to the success of our society.
1 NYC Mayor's Office (June 22, 2008). "Mayor Bloomberg Announces High School Graduation Rate." Press Release.
The following links can provide you with additional context of public education in New York City:
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Impact & Results
New York Program Satisfaction Data
- Among New York New Leaders principals, 91% feel New Leaders has prepared them to lead an urban K-12 public school effectively.
- 100% of New York New Leaders principals believe that the program is high quality overall.
- 94% of New York New Leaders Residents report that they feel part of a national movement to transform urban education by demonstrating that all students can achieve at high levels.
Preliminary New York City Achievement Results1
One indicator of New Leaders' effectiveness is comparing our schools' results to other schools in their systems. New Leaders in New York are part of the Department of Education's efforts to create smaller, more personalized schools that have more autonomy to make the kinds of decisions needed to impact student outcomes. As a result, many New Leaders in New York have focused simultaneously on building strong organizations and on improving student outcomes. While data are not available across all the New York schools, early indications demonstrate that New Leaders have a positive impact on students' achievement:
- 63% of New Leaders-led K-8 schools outperformed the district in English Language Arts (ELA) and math combined
- 58% of New Leaders-led K-8 schools made 20+ combined ELA and math gains, compared to 36% of district schools
- K-8 New Leaders-led schools averaged a one-year gain of 25 percentage points across ELA and math combined compared to the average district gain of 17 percentage points
- The 2008 4-year graduation rate is 74% for students in New Leaders-led high schools compared to the district rate of 61%2
1 Preliminary student achievement results include schools with available data as of June 2009. Note that 2009 graduation data is not yet available and that occasionally districts make slight adjustments to data to reflect improved precision and accuracy.
2 The district rate includes New Leaders-led schools.
Highlights from New York City New Leaders-led Dramatically Gaining Schools
Many New Leaders-led schools are demonstrating how to create the kinds of dramatic gains needed to prepare all students for graduation and college, achieving yearly growth of 20+ combined points in the percent of students reaching standards in math and English Language Arts. Here are a few examples from the 2008-09 school year:
- Bronx Studio School increased proficiency scores by 37 points this year, for an average annual gain of 25 points over four years. Between 2006 and 2009, the percentage of students meeting standards has increased from 33% to 76% in math and 31% to 63% in ELA
- Urban Assembly School for the Urban Environment in East Williamsburg gained 29 percentage points this year, for an average annual gain of 25 points over four years
- Ronald Edmonds Learning Center II in Clinton Hill/Fort Greene gained 40 percentage points this year, for an average annual gain of 24 points over 3 years
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Recruitment & Admissions
Requirements:
New York City
- A baccalaureate degree from an accredited university
- A masters degree from an accredited university
- A minimum of 3 years of full-time K-12 school based experience (at least 2 years must be full time teaching experience)
- Hold or be eligible to hold a valid New York State teaching certificate or have a comparable level out-of-state teaching certificate*
Newark
- A baccalaureate degree from an accredited university
- A masters degree from an accredited university
- A minimum of 5 years of full-time K-12 school based experience (at least 2 years must be full time teaching experience)
- Hold or be eligible to hold a valid New York State teaching certificate or have a comparable level out-of-state teaching certificate*
Information Sessions
We encourage you to sign up for an information session to learn more about our program. CLICK HERE to view a schedule of sessions in New York City. If you have further questions about the program, please contact the Director of Recruitment and Admissions, Ron Augustin at raugustin@nlns.org.
TFA Partnership
Teach for America (TFA) and New Leaders for New Schools have formed a strategic partnership to identify TFA alumni who are ready to take on the tremendous challenge of the of the urban school principalship. New Leaders for New Schools is seeking to recruit highly-qualified Teach For America alumni into the 2008-2009 New Leaders for New Schools Residency class and increase the visibility and awareness of the New Leaders program in order to build a pipeline of highly qualified candidates for future classes. TFA has launched a School Leadership Initiative (SLI) which seeks to accelerate the path to the principalship for qualified alumni by connecting them with New Leaders for New Schools. Our final application deadline is February 28, 2008. Please contact the Director of Recruitment and Admission for NLNS, Ron Augustin to find out about more specific events for Teach For America alumni at raugustin@nlns.org or Jeff Anderson the TFA Director of Leadership Initiatives at jeff.anderson@teachforamerica.org.
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Supporters
Our work to recruit, select and prepare outstanding leaders for New York City's public schools would not be possible without the generous support of national and local donors.
NYC Advisory Board
Peter Bennett
Chairman, Liberty Partners
Boykin Curry
Managing Director, Eagle Capital
Richard Dresdale
Co-founder & Managing Director, Fenway Partners
Chris Evans
US Department of the Treasury
Matt Evans (co-chair)
Principal, Salmon River Capital
Sidney Gargiulo
Ziff Brothers Investments
Leah Gogel
Teachers College, Columbia University
Jason Griffiths
New Leader Cohort 6
Principal, The Brooklyn Latin School
Sam Mehta (co-chair)
Managing Director, Alvarez & Marsal
Katie O'Dwyer
CFO, Ziff Brothers Investments
Craig Powell
CEO, ConnectEDU
Emily Von Kohorn
Director, Fir Tree Partners
Jeff Wahl
President & Chief Executive Officer, EdisonLearning
Supporters
Blue Ridge Foundation
Boykin Curry
Marcella and Richard Dresdale
Fund for Public Schools
Sidney and John Gargiulo
Dr. Kelly Posner Gerstenhaber
HSBC Bank USA, N.A.
Jack Kent Cooke Foundation
JP Morgan Chase Foundation
Kirkland & Ellis
Steven Klinsky and Maureen Sherry
Charles Ledley
Josh and Tess Lewis
Lone Pine Foundation
MCJ Amelior Foundation
Newark Charter School Fund
New York City Department of Education
New York City Charter School Center
The New York Community Trust
The Prudential Foundation
RGK Foundation
SAP America, Inc.
Select Equity Group
Naomi Seligman
Tiger Foundation
U.S. Department of Education
Ernest von Simson
W. Clement & Jessie V. Stone Foundation
Wachovia Foundation
The George and Mildred Weissman Foundation
Anonymous Donors
Learn More or Donate:
To make a donation or to learn more about the New York City/Newark program, please contact:
Elissa Harel, Director of Development
New York City/Newark Program
Phone: 646.792.7867
Email: eharel@nlns.org
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