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The Leadership Academy
Purpose
The Leadership Academy works at the nexus of leadership and equity, developing the capacity of school and school system leaders to disrupt systemic inequities and create the conditions needed for all students to thrive.
Vision
We envision a nation where every school and school system is intentionally built to ensure children of every race, ethnicity, language, and other identity characteristics have what they need to achieve academic, social, and emotional success.
Mission
We build the capacity of educational leaders at every level of the system to disrupt systemic inequities and create the conditions necessary for all students to thrive.
Additional Culture Details
The Leadership Academy staff are a diverse group of experts and innovators in our field, able to use our deep experience to support educational leadership development. We strive to be an equitable organization for all staff members. We hold ourselves and each other accountable for upholding our mission, vision, and values. We value communication and collaboration and strive to foster a culture of open conversation and feedback. We actively seek out and include diverse perspectives in our decision-making, policies, and practices. We value resiliency and encourage risk taking and continuous learning. We provide opportunities for our team members to develop and grow so that they can do their best work and in turn have a lasting impact on educational leaders and their students.
Values
- Practice anti-racism
- We commit to continuously reflect on ourselves as individuals and as an organization to identify ways in which racism is being perpetuated, to name those ways, and then to mitigate, disrupt, and dismantle them, removing the option for inaction. We commit to intentionally designing inclusive new systems.