New Leaders for New Schools

History

In the spring of 2000, a team of five graduate students at Harvard Business School and the Harvard Graduate School of Education completed a business plan to launch New Leaders for New Schools. To design the plan, the team conducted extensive research including detailed interviews with current and aspiring school leaders, district superintendents, and educational experts. They also drew upon their professional experiences as classroom teachers in urban and rural schools, in blue-chip private sector firms, in educational research, and in education policymaking at the national level.

The New Leaders business plan was entered into the annual Harvard Business School business plan contest, and we became the first nonprofit team ever to be selected as a semi-finalist in Harvard's competition. Soon after, New Leaders for New Schools received start-up funding from a number of venture philanthropists and capitalists. During the summer of 2000, the New Leaders team researched possible launch cities and held interviews and focus groups with current and aspiring school leaders who critiqued and recommended modifications to the program design.

Over the last five years, New Leaders for New Schools has continued to hone and develop its program as it has expanded and grown. During the 2005-06 scholastic year, 231 New Leaders educators impact 115, 500 students in our six partner cities: Baltimore, Chicago, Memphis, New York, Washington, DC, and the California Bay Area.

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