New Leaders

leadership, and rigorous and engaging curriculum. The presence of only one or two of these elements is
insufficient. In line with evidence on school improvement, New Leaders views schools as the unit of
change and effective school leaders as the best leverage point to transform underperforming schools at
scale. Since our founding in 2001, New Leaders has executed against its mission of ensuring high
academic achievement for all children, especially students in poverty and students of color, by
developing transformational school leaders (at all levels—from teacher leaders to sitting principals to
principal managers and superintendents) and advancing the policies and practices that allow great
leaders to succeed.

Recognizing the leading role we have played to develop dedicated, skilled leaders at every level by
preparing 4,000 outstanding school leaders in more than 30 cities nationwide, and reaching 500,000
students to date, we also acknowledge that we only develop a fraction of school leaders across the
country each year. We can do better.

New Leaders cannot accomplish the ambitious vision that K-12 education advocates have been chipping
away at for decades by maintaining the status quo. To have many more great public schools, we must
dramatically increase the number of well-prepared school leaders. Building on our success to date, New
Leaders is ready to embark on an ambitious mission to drastically scale the number of school leaders
prepared, from 4,000 in total over the past 18 years, to 4,000 leaders annually by 2025.

Pursuing this catalytic goal that will improve outcomes for 1 million students each year is not merely
aspirational. New Leaders has been building toward this goal since the inception of the Aspiring
Principals Program. Research studies have shown the positive - and statistically significant - impact of
our Aspiring Principals program on student achievement, most recently through a 2019 RAND
Corporation report that studied Emerging Leaders through Aspiring Principals training. At the same time,
we found that taking our work to the next level of scale and impact - providing meaningful, effective
leadership development that reaches increasing numbers of educators and students at a cost that
districts can afford - required significant shifts in not only who we serve, but also in how we design and
execute programming.

Over the next several years, we will work to define a suite of programs under the umbrella of Leadership Pathways: 1) our signature programs (Emerging Leaders & Aspiring Principals), where districts seek them; 2) streamlining our flexible models into more consistent Program Pathways; and 3) deeper dives into a small number of districts through Leadership Networks. In addition, we anticipate continued piloting of innovative program structures, such as Leadership Networks, that will allow us to build new opportunities and continue to innovate. Our recently
announced opportunity to influence principal preparation across the country through partnerships with
institutes of higher education is poised to support a dramatic expansion of the number of leaders we
reach, while drawing on the content and lessons learned from across our Leadership Pathways.