Recruiting New Leaders for New Schools - April 1 deadline

Tue Mar 30 14:27:46 EST 2004

If interested, please reply directly to Jon Schnur at jschnur at Nlns.org.

Best,
Cheryl Collins

 -----Original Message-----
From: Jon Schnur
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 6:08 PM
To: Jon Schnur
Cc: vrodriguez at nlns.org
Subject: update and could use your help

Hello!!

I wanted to update you about exciting news about New Leaders for New 
Schools AND ask for your help in the home stretch of our 2004 recruiting 
campaign. We are searching for additional talented people with the drive 
and potential to participate successfully in our intensive training 
program and become successful urban principals to drive high levels of 
learning and achievement for every child.

WITH 5 MINUTES OF YOUR TIME, YOU CAN REALLY HELP BY:

1) nominating strong candidates to become New Leaders and get on a 
fast-track to an urban principalship. (Please email nominations directly 
to me at jschnur at Nlns.org and our National Director of Recruiting and 
Admissions Vanessa Rodriguez at Vrodriguez at nlns.org)

2) forwarding this email broadly to help get the word out to talented 
potential candidates.

3) inviting potential candidates or "nominators" of candidates to New 
Leaders information sessions NEXT WEEK IN NEW YORK CITY, WASHINGTON DC, 
CHICAGO, AND MEMPHIS. (Dates and locations for information sessions listed 
below)

Our application* is on-line at www.nlns.org <http://www.nlns.org/>  and our final deadline is April 1st, 2004
*for New York City, Chicago, Memphis, California's Bay Area, and 
Washington DC!

New Leaders in the news . . . New Leaders was recently honored as one of 
the top 20 non-profit organizations changing the world by Fast Company 
magazine.  After launching our newest site in Memphis, New Leaders 
appeared as a front-page story across the region in the Memphis 
Commercial-Appeal.

New Leaders is . . . a national non-profit organization that is fostering 
high levels of academic achievement for every child by attracting and 
preparing the next generation of urban school principals.  In its third 
year, nearly 100 New Leaders in five cities are the foundation of our 
10-year goal to build a 2,000 person principal corps impacting the lives 
of over a million children.  New Leaders is a program in which aspiring 
principals are carefully-selected from a large pool of diverse recruits, 
attend courses by and receive certification from nationally-recognized 
experts/practitioners, engage in a year-long Residency with a Mentor 
Principal, receive three years of intensive one-on-one coaching from a 
successful urban school principal, and become part of a national movement 
of like-minded leaders dedicated to transforming urban public schools.

Looking for change-agents and leaders . . . We are attracting 
entrepreneurs who want to start up new schools AND leaders who want to 
lead and improve existing schools. New Leaders are former teachers turned 
business-people or non-profit executives, current teacher leaders and 
veterans in the system, former non-profit leaders turned teachers and 
everything in between.  Our youngest New Leader is 28 and the oldest is 
58, over two-thirds are people of color, and they apply from all over the 
country.  Every single New Leader shares an unyielding belief in the 
potential of all children, a record of success in leading adults, 
knowledge of teaching and learning, and a relentless-drive to lead 
excellent schools.

Securing funding from some of the nation's leading philanthropists and 
urban largest school systems . . . We are about halfway to our 3-year goal 
of raising $22 million to support a 300-person principal corps leading 
schools serving 150,000 students by 2006.  We have been very fortunate to 
receive funding this past year from funders including the Annie E. Casey 
Foundation, the Boeing Company, the Broad Foundation, the Cafritz 
Foundation, the Chicago Community Trust, the Chicago Public Education 
Fund, the Crown Foundation, the Fannie Mae Foundation, FedEx, Fight for 
Children, Inc. the Hyde Foundation, Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, the Kimsey 
Foundation, the Memphis Partnership in Public Education, the New Schools 
Venture Fund, the New York City Leadership Academy, the Noyce Foundation, 
the United States Department of Education, and the Weinberg Foundation.

Our partner school systems in have also invested in assistant principal 
salaries to support New Leaders during their yearlong residency and 
training year.

Spread the word - you are the key to our success . . .
- Nominate a candidate you know right now - we will contact them and tell 
them more about our program (please use the attached nomination form)
- Forward this email to everyone you know --- you never know who knows 
someone who would be terrific for our program
- Highlight us in newsletters, email list-serves, meetings, internal 
correspondence, etc...our most effective recruiting tool is word of mouth. 
 Some of our best applicants come from seemingly unlikely sources.
- Encourage candidates to attend our next information sessions:

New York City
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2004, 5:30-7:00pm
Kirkland & Ellis, 153 East 53rd Street (NE corner at Lexington Avenue, 
CitiCorp Building), 39th Floor, Assembly Room ABC
(RSVP to Millene Hahm at mhahm at nlns.org)

Washington D.C.
Wednesday, March 24th, 2004, 6:30-8:00pm
King & Spalding, 1730 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
(RSVP to Tracy Higgins at thiggins at nlns.org)

Chicago
Wednesday, March 24th, 5:30-7:00 pm
850 W. Jackson, Suite 220
(RSVP to Nora Arroyo at narroyo at nlns.org or (312) 829-6567)

Memphis
Thursday, March 25th, 2004, 5:30-7:00 pm
The Teaching and Learning Academy, Room W110
2485 Union Avenue, Memphis
(RSVP to Mary Catherine Wells at mwells at nlns.org.)

San Francisco/Oakland area
(no additional information sessions planned.) 
Please email jholleran at Nlns.org for more information or apply online at 
www.nlns.org.

Thank you VERY much for any help you can provide - and for the help that 
you have already given to me and New Leaders.
Please email me if you have ideas, questions, or feedback.

All my best, Jon

Jon Schnur
Chief Executive Officer
New Leaders for New Schools
18 W. 27th St, 7th Floor
New York, NY 10001
646.424.0892
jschnur at nlns.org
www.nlns.org <http://www.nlns.org/>

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