Launched in 2003, the NYC Leadership Academy is an independent non-profit organization that recruits, develops and supports effective school leaders, with a focus on preparing principals to lead New York City’s high-need schools—those marked by high student poverty, low student achievement, and a history of frequent leadership turnover.
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NYC LEADERSHIP ACADEMY AWARDED CONTRACT TO PROVIDE COMPREHENSIVE PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENT AND SUPPORT SERVICES IN NEW YORK CITY
July 27, 2008 NY, NY: In June, the New York City Department of Education (DOE) awarded a competitively bid contract for Leadership Development Services to the NYC Leadership Academy, a not-for-profit organization established in 2003 to recruit, prep
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| NYC LEADERSHIP ACADEMY PRINCIPALS WIN CAHN FELLOWSHIPS | New York, N.Y. Mar. 31, 2008: The Cahn Fellows Program for Distinguished New York City Principals at Teachers College, Columbia University has named 24 New York City school principals as Cahn Fellows |
| DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION SELECTS THE NYC LEADERSHIP ACADEMY TO PROVIDE PRINCIPAL TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT SERVICES | Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein today announced the selection of the NYC Leadership Academy as the primary provider of training to prospective New York public school principals |
| City Limits: News for NYC's Nonprofit, Policy and Activist World A MATTER OF PRINCIPALS: ON TRAINING SCHOOL CHIEFS | The Leadership Academy's Sandra Stein prepares for the next phase in school reform |
| In Bronx School, Culture Shock, Then Revival | A Bronx School Revives On his first visit, in October 2004, he found a police officer arresting a student and calling for backup to handle the swelling crowd. Students roamed the hallways with abandon; in one class of 30, only 5 students had bothered to show up. “It was chaos,” Mr. Waronker recalled. “I was like, this can’t be real.” |
| Academy in N.Y.C Prepares Principals for Toughest Jobs | The outcome of New York City’s gambit to give schools greater autonomy over their budgets and curriculum in exchange for heightened accountability for results will arguably rise or fall based on the skills of its principals. So the role of the New York City Leadership Academy—created by Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein to recruit, train, and support new principals for the city’s toughest schools—has never been more central. |