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The 2024 BES Fellowship for Founding School Leaders - Alabama
BES seeks a full-time Fellow to serve as a Founding School Leader in the state of Alabama. BES is open to Fellows in any Alabama city with a favorable landscape for new public charter schools and aligned to authorizer priorities. Through the BES Fellowship, highly motivated leaders who are committed to transforming education will participate in rigorous, multi-year training that prepares them to design, found, and lead a high-achieving school that reflects and responds to the needs of their community.
Who We Are Strong schools rest on the shoulders of strong leaders. That’s why BES identifies and prepares excellent leaders to transform education in their communities. From school founders and executive directors, to operations leaders, deans of students, and directors of curriculum and instruction, we train leaders to build schools, to ensure their schools excel, and to sustain their results over time.
Over more than two decades, 120 BES Fellows have created 63,000 quality school seats across the country. Schools founded by BES-trained leaders are outpacing student achievement in their districts and states and closing the opportunity gap. The BES Fellowship and selection process is designed to create an equitable, inclusive, and uplifting experience for Fellows as BES fulfills its commitments to being an actively anti-racist organization.
What We Believe We invest in leaders so that they can invest in their teams and students, delivering on the promise of an excellent education for every child. What sets BES apart is our focus on entrepreneurial leadership. BES training equips school leaders with the skills they need to effectively manage instruction, operations, student and adult culture, and external relationships in a high-achieving, locally responsive school. BES-trained leaders hold themselves and their teams accountable for academic and non-academic results for all students. They demonstrate an ongoing commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and they lead schools that reflect and respond to the needs of their communities. Read our beliefs about excellent schools and leaders.
What You’ll Do The BES Fellowship for Founding School Leaders is a four year process that supports leaders in building a high-performing, locally responsive school. For a comprehensive description of our Fellowship, please visit our website. An overview is provided below.
Training and School Design YearsAlabama Fellows take part in our traditional Build Track Fellowship: The “traditional” four-year Fellowship track focused on founding fresh-start public charter schools.
Fellows participate in 300 hours of intensive training on adaptive/technical leadership, board governance, school design, organizational leadership, community engagement, and diversity, equity and inclusion. They also spend a minimum of three weeks studying schools with effective practices nationwide, in addition to five school studies in their region. Fellows complete a minimum of two extended residencies at high-performing schools, write and submit their charter application, and build a founding board.
Planning Year (Follow On Support)Upon completion of the training year and approved charter application, Fellows partner with a dedicated BES coach, who works closely with leaders in years 2-4. This coaching program, called Follow On Support, ensures that schools start strong and stay strong.
During this year, Fellows work on becoming strong project managers, develop leadership skills where they have gaps, gain content knowledge, hire their founding team, recruit their founding students, move from lead founder to school leader, and crystallize their vision for the school.
Year 1 of Operation (Follow On Support)Leaders actualize their vision when they welcome their inaugural class of students, become strong teacher-coaches, use data to intentionally move academic results, manage and cultivate talent, and implement personal organization systems that allow them to effectively deliver on their core responsibilities.
Year 2 of Operation (Follow On Support)Leaders champion and uphold their vision as the school size doubles, sharpen the academic focus, attract and manage talent in a competitive market, develop leaders for future school growth, and manage their role to empower others.
What You Bring
Minimum Requirements
Education & Work History
School Based Experience
Leadership
Community Connections
Additional minimum criteria may vary based on partner requirements in specific regions and Fellowship Track
Alabama Regional Preferences
Compensation and Benefits
To ApplyApplications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Due to the rigorous nature of our Fellowship program, the first step in our application is very extensive. We suggest putting aside at least one hour to complete it. Serious applicants are encouraged to apply today in order to secure limited spots in our available regions. Please visit our website for a list of our priority deadlines. We encourage you to connect with our team if you have questions about the Fellowship or selection process before you apply.
Full Time
$96k-123k (estimate)
05/05/2024
05/16/2024