New Leaders Inc

Filing Period

Jul 1, 2011 to Jun 30, 2012

Signed

May 9, 2013

Return Version

2011v1.5

Gross Receipts

$33,976,192

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Epic programepic, the effective practice incentive community, provides new leaders and its partners the opportunity to learn from educators driving gains in high-need urban schools. New leaders established epic in 2006 to link principal and teacher incentive pay to the wide-scale sharing of effective educational practices. The program identifies schools driving significant achievement gains and financially rewards the principals, assistant principals, teachers, and other staff in those schools in exchange for sharing the effective practices that have contributed to the gains. After distributing financial awards to eligible employees in a particular school, epic works to identify the effective practices that led to student achievement gains and then develops a case study or profile of that school practice. The primary components of epic are (1) the development of value-added models for analyzing student achievement data to identify schools making the greatest gains; (2) the recognition and rewarding of school leaders, teachers, and staff in high-gain schools for sharing their effective practices and strategies with other schools; and (3) the creation of comprehensive case studies that are shared with a broad network of schools and educators through an innovative online platform called the epic knowledge system. In the year ending june 30, 2012, epic identified 26 award-winning schools across its three partnership programs and offered educator incentive awards to over 900 school leaders, teachers, instructional staff, and school employees in the district of columbia public schools, the memphis city schools, and the national charter school consortium.

Activity 3

School support program (aspiring principals program / principal institute)for program participants who complete the aspiring principals program and accept leadership positions in urban public schools, new leaders provides support through its principal institute, a professional learning community. In the year ending june 30, 2012, principal institute included 84 principals and assistant principals serving approximately 42,000 students. The principal institute includes guidance in developing an entry plan for the new school leader and provides substantial professional development and support in the crucial early years on the job. Through new leaders' city program offices, new leaders principals and assistant principals had access to ongoing professional development workshops, consultations with expert staff, opportunities to participate in small-group learning and leadership development experiences, and invitations to networking and social events. They also have access to high-quality, nationally-provided resources including the urban excellence framework ("uef") field guide; uef-aligned tools, artifacts, and resources; school-wide diagnostic tools and action planning frameworks; online access to key curriculum and course materials; the epic knowledge system; and invitations to periodic national professional development events.

Filer

EIN

04-3519203