CREATING THRIVING SCHOOLS

OVERVIEW OF SCHOOL EMPOWERMENT NETWORK

Launched in 2015, School Empowerment Network (SEN) is a national non-profit organization with the mission to create transformational schools where students are treasured, challenged, and inspired. SEN supports educational leaders in developing a vision for their schools, creating plans grounded in their school community’s reality, and providing support to those schools to ensure positive outcomes for ALL students. To date, SEN has partnered with over 25 districts across 10 states, impacting the school experience of more than 100,000 students.

SCHOOL DESIGN FELLOWSHIP

We provide a year-long Fellowship that gives leaders the time and space to develop detailed school plans for new, high-quality, inclusive schools as well as the leadership and change management skills needed to lead school communities toward dramatically improved outcomes. Our new schools typically receive two years of post-opening support to guide leaders through inevitable obstacles and avoid regression to business-as-usual practices as they guide their school community toward their transformational vision.

PATHWAYS TO LEADERSHIP PROGRAM

The Pathways to Leadership Program enhances student outcomes by training school leaders to focus on and improve the instructional core in their school context. The program focuses on promoting excellent teaching and developing key systems, practices, and skills required to implement an aligned and high-quality instructional vision. The program assists leaders in preparing teachers to effectively implement high quality instructional materials, apply the science of learning to teaching practices and create systems for ongoing adult learning and continuous improvement.

SCHOOL QUALITY REVIEWS

Schools require meaningful feedback on their efforts and recommendations for high-leverage actions to take in support of their goals. Our in-depth School Quality Review process uses a research-backed rubric to locate school practices on a continuum, identify the gaps in the school’s implementation of the instructional vision, and move the school to the next level of performance. The reviews and the reports produced provide school leaders with a roadmap for school improvement.

EXECUTIVE SUPPORT AND COACHING

SEN’s Executive Coaching service helps cabinet-level leaders effectively support the critical instructional improvements identified for implementation at the school level. Strategy support focuses on eliminating confusing or contradictory initiatives and corresponding demands on school staff time while developing a laser focus on the most critical actions that can and will support improved student outcomes.

OUR FOOTPRINT

Since our founding in 2015, we’ve collaborated with over  27 school districts across Michigan, New York, Massachusetts, Texas, Louisiana, and Georgia, positively impacting the educational journey of over 100,000 students.

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