What we want to be
PartnersSI is a school improvement organization recognized in the field for excellence in developing powerful social justice leaders who get results and for providing a workplace where staff thrive. We are the organization of choice for the very best talent and the source of exceptional leaders prepared to lead dramatic improvement in student learning and school performance for PartnersSI and beyond.

Who we want to be
PartnersSI staff are a group of talented and diverse individuals with an unwavering commitment to achieving educational equity. We believe that educational equity is the pathway toward achieving greater social justice, fulfilling our democratic ideals, and dismantling wider systems of inequality. We are characterized by our results-oriented leadership, initiative and ingenuity, and desire to continuously learn and improve.

CORE BELIEFS

• Diversity: We believe a diverse set of perspectives, backgrounds and approaches enriches our work and collective efficacy.
  
  
• Results-Orientation: We believe a results-oriented, initiative-taking, continuous-learning attitude is as important as experience and expertise in developing gap-closing leaders and change agents.
  
  
• Inquiry: We believe in inquiry-based learning, both for our schools and our organization. We continuously ask questions, collect, analyze and reflect upon evidence, and incorporate new insights by adjusting our approach and/or goals.
  
  
• Experiential Learning: We believe the most powerful developmental learning occurs through on-the-ground experience leading schools and districts to dramatically improve performance. We believe in building strong partnerships with each individual school, through which knowledge about what works in school improvement gets exchanged, honed, shared and replicated.
  
  
• Leaders Breed Leaders: We believe that strong coaching and guidance from knowledgeable, highly effective individuals who model results-producing leadership develop knowledgeable, highly effective individuals capable of results-producing leadership.
  
  
• Professional Development: We believe ongoing, relevant and timely professional development that combines theory and practice and draws from external and internal sources of expertise is an essential component in the development of extraordinary results-oriented leaders.
  
  
• Explicit Criteria/Feedback: We believe the criteria for a high-performing staff member must be explicit and performance feedback must be ongoing in order to develop high-performing staff members.
  
  
• Culture: We believe that a collaborative and challenging workplace that provides opportunities for growth and development, initiative and ingenuity, mentorship and improvement enable staff to thrive.
  
  
• Work/Life Balance: We believe in hard work and the relentless pursuit of our mission AND we believe in finding a balance with other responsibilities and areas of fulfillment including home, family, spiritual and extracurricular interests.

1. To develop each PartnersSI staff member as a powerful leader and change agent in public education
   
   
2. To establish PartnersSI's reputation for excellence in developing extraordinary results-oriented leaders capable of affecting profound change in public education
   
   
3. To establish and fund a staffing model that enables sustainable and scalable organizational capacity positioning us to achieve our organizational objectives as well as maintain work/life balance
   
   
4. To establish a comprehensive staff system (including professional development, growth/promotion opportunities and compensation components among other essentials) that develops and retains top talent and produces extraordinary results-oriented leaders
   
   
5. To implement a systematized and robust recruiting process that authentically reflects the professionalism and values of PartnersSI enabling us to fill each position with outstanding candidates
   
   
6. To develop an abundant pipeline of candidates such that we are able to fill staff positions with highly qualified and diverse individuals in a timely manner
   
   
7. To provide a collaborative and challenging workplace that provides opportunities for growth and development through regular teamwork, initiative and ingenuity, mentorship and improvement that enable staff to thrive
   
   
8. To enable departing staff members to continue as leaders affecting profound change in public education, a career path which they may not have considered without their PartnersSI experience