News

SLN Principal, Dr. Cordell Jones, of Woodridge Elementary School, Alamo Heights ISD in San Antonio, TX was named Regional Principal of the Year for the San Antonio area by H-E-B.  Dr. Jones is one of five recipients of this award for 2012.  H-E-B awards wonderful honors to the best teachers and school leaders in Texas each year.

Networks in New York City, San Antonio and Los Angeles Accepting Applications

The best way to learn about SLN is to experience it first hand. Please be our guest at our next Long Island City Cohort meeting. We sincerely hope that you can join us and look forward to meeting you!

SLN Long Island City Cohort Meeting

Tuesday November 1, 2011 at 4:30pm
The Riverview Restaurant
2-01 50th Avenue
Long Island City, NY 11101 718 -392-5000

Please RSVP to Dr. John R. Jenkins at jjenkins [at] connectleadsucceed [dot] org
 

School Leaders Network is pleased to announce the receipt of a grant of $250,000 from MetLife Foundation to sustain and expand SLN Networks in its existing geographical clusters. The grant also includes support to encourage and enable SLN’s collaborative work with New Leaders for New Schools and its EPIC tools in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond.

This grant has also played an important role in SLN opening its first two Networks in the Bay area and its first Network in Los Angeles.

School Leaders Network is pleased to announce a gift of $45,000 from the Harold K.L. Castle Foundation to fund the expansion of SLN's presence in Hawaii. This gift, in collaboration with funding from the Kamehameha Schools, enabled SLN to open one more network this year in Oahu, providing more principals there with development and support critical for success.

Please join us in-person or via national webcast Nov. 10 for a panel discussion on School Leadership Matters: Changing Principal Preparation to Drive Student Achievement and Teacher Effectiveness at Scale and for our national release of the Rainwater Leadership Alliance’s A New Approach to Principal Preparation: Innovative Programs Share Their Practices and Lessons Learned. Event details.

Elizabeth Neale, Founder and CEO of School Leaders Network announced the receipt of a gift from The Booth Ferris Foundation for school years 10-11 and 11-12. This gift makes it possible to realize SLN’s strategic goal of establishing a Regional Program Director to oversee the five SLN Networks in New York City. These networks, comprised of K-12 public school principals across the boroughs, were established in 2006.

The Meadows Foundation has awarded Trinity University $281,000 for the first year of a three-year project to maintain the Trinity Principals’ Center (TPC), to support the continuation of the work SLN is presently doing in Texas and to expand SLN's presence there for the 2010-11 school year.

"Advanced Leadership Training in School Leaders Network"

Experienced Principals Benefit From Monthly Facilitator-Led Brainstorming Sessions, Inter-School Visits and Presentations"

by Anne Silverstein

Analysis of the NYC Progress Report for the school year 08-09, issued in December 2009, shows that SLN-led schools made bigger gains in student achievement and school environment than peer schools led by principals not participating in SLN programming. Highlights of the report include:

SLN-led high schools had a Math Regents pass rate of 85%, an increase of 25 percentage points from 2007-08.

School Leaders Network now has four videos up on the popular video site, YouTube. In these videos, SLN members talk about the need for professional leadership development for school leaders and what it is like to be a member of a network. They also share some of the things that they learned in their networks and have taken back to their schools. Members reflect on the difference they are making with their teachers and students as a result of being members of SLN.  

An analysis of the New York City School Progress Report, released in June, comparing 2006-07 school scores to scores achieved in 2007-08 showed correlations in school performance improvements with program participation in just one year’s time.

SLN Raleigh Facilitators, Jesse Dingle and Denise Tillery and Jody Roy, SLN Program Director, presented the SLN program model at the National Association of Elementary School Principals {NAESP} 88th Annual Convention and Exposition in New Orleans.