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PartnersSI Launches Leadership Development
Initiative
On December 7, Partners in School Innovation, San Francisco Unified
School District, the San Francisco School Alliance and UC Berkeley's
Principal Leadership Institute officially announced the launch
of the Leadership Initiative focused on recruiting, preparing,
supporting and retaining world-class leaders for San Francisco's
100+ public schoools.
The need for this initiative is clear: if current trends continue,
SFUSD will lose over 30% of its principals and assistant principals
over the next five years through retirement and attrition. Said
Gwen Chan, Interim Superintendent of San Francisco Unified School
District, "Great leaders will help ensure that all of our students
graduate from high school poised for success." Read
the press release
Leadership for Gap-Closing Results: What Does
it Take?
On September 29, Partners in School Innovation hosted a leadership
symposium at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. The event
featured the principals from Miner Elementary School and Grant
Elementary School in San Jose, and the PartnersSI staff who worked
closely with them, to discuss their perspectives on how their
results-oriented leadership enabled their schools to achieve gap-closing
results. Read
the Miner Case Study
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