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KIPP Leadership Design Fellowship

KIPP Leadership Design Fellowship (KLDF), is an eight-month program designed for the administrators of public school districts, charter school systems, and leadership training organizations that provides intensive training on KIPP’s principal development model.

Round Table KIPP School Leadership Design Fellowship

The fellowship, run by the KIPP School Leadership Programs (KSLP), provides an opportunity for participants to get an in-depth look at KIPP’s principal selection, training, and development model, explore a variety of other innovative school leadership models around the country, and join a cohort of reform-minded education leaders through three interactive summits held over a multi-day period.

KLDF launched in 2012 and is made possible by a federal Investing in Innovation (i3) grant and matching grant partners.

 

KLDF is designed to:

Share KIPP’s leadership practices
In-person summits are deliberately scheduled to coincide with national KIPP events, ensuring that the Fellows not just hear what KIPP does, but see programs in action.

Model what KIPP teaches
Taught by KIPP’s own instructors, KLDF sessions demonstrate the high quality, engaging, adult learning that KIPP incorporates into all of its principal training programs.

Forge a community of like-minded leaders among KLDF fellows
The structure of KLDF aims to replicate the cohort-based learning model that KIPP utilizes in its other leadership training programs in order to encourage fellows to build lasting relationships with each other—creating an expanded network of like-minded leaders.

 

Participants and fellowship schedules 

2012 Cohort  |  2013 Cohort 


Reflections 

Brainstorm KIPP School Leadership Design Fellowship“This is an extraordinary professional development experience and systems should send leaders with decision-making authority to enhance their leadership development programs.”
– Paul Miller, Los Angeles Unified School District

“Every time we met - the new learning about how KIPP develops and supports leaders - provided new learning and pushed me to think beyond what is currently our district practice to what could be and what it would take to make that possible.”
– Ann Sledge, Houston Independent School District

“You took a very traditional retired superintendent and opened his eyes to KIPP and a new way to do things that work.” 
– Mark Mitchell, Winthrop University 

 

Participant Details

Ideal Candidates

KIPP looks for reform-minded districts, charter management organizations (CMOs), and leadership training organizations that want to improve the selection, training, and development of their principals. Two representatives from the organization should have the:

  • Capacity to impact and influence their organization’s current principal hiring and training programs
  • Willingness and ability to share effective practices from their current organization
  • Desire to work hard and contribute to a close-knit community of practice
  • Belief that closing the achievement gap is possible though transformative school leadership
  • Commitment and organizational support to attend all three summits

 

Costs

Tuition, travel, lodging, food, and all summit materials is paid for by the KIPP Foundation. In 2010, KIPP was awarded the Investing in Innovation (i3) Fund, a federal grant that allows KIPP to train more leaders, increase the size of the network at a faster rate, and share effective practices with other schools and networks, which benefit a significantly higher number of students. The KIPP Leadership Design Fellowship is made possible by federal i3 funding and matching partner grants.

 

Applications 

Information about future KLDF cohorts will be available in fall 2013. Email KLDF@kipp.org if you have any questions about participation.

 

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