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Listing Posted/Expires: 9/17/2008-8/15/2009
Job Title: Building Excellent Schools Fellow
City, State: various, MO
Organization: Building Excellent Schools
Salary: Not Given
Salary comment: $80,000 stipend
Qualifications: What do we look for in our school founders and leaders?
Our Fellows represent a range of professional experience including education, business, law, and public administration. Our selection criteria aligns with the characteristics of the highest performing school leaders.
Building Excellent Schools Fellows have a(n):
Absolute belief that academic achievement drives everything:
Leadership
School Design
School Culture
Decisions
Governance
Track Record of Exceptional Impact:
in your professional pursuits business, law and/or education
in your community
Building Excellent Schools Fellows are:
High-Capacity:
Strong Communicators
Strategic Thinkers
Highly Flexible and Urgent
Relentless Achievers: Gets the job done no matter what
Humble: Always willing to learn
Demanding of Themselves and Others: Good is not good enough, only great will suffice
Job Description: Who Are We?
Building Excellent Schools is a national non-profit organization committed to dramatically improving the academic achievement of underserved students in urban areas. Through the Building Excellent Schools Fellowship, we offer selected leaders a yearlong, full-time comprehensive training program in urban charter school creation and leadership. After the Fellowship, Building Excellent Schools Fellows receive additional support and coaching as they guide their schools successfully through start-up and early operations.
Territories include:
St. Louis, MO
Los Angeles, CA
Oakland, CA
Denver, CO
New York City, NY
Newark, NJ
Memphis, TN
What do we offer?
Building Excellent Schools Fellowship
The Fellowship is driven by these three primary goals:
Fully prepare leaders to design, found, and operate high-performing urban charter schools that out perform their surrounding districts on standardized tests.
Fully prepare leaders to design, found, and operate high-performing urban charter schools that thoroughly prepare each of their students for college success.
Fully prepare leaders to be credible, effective, and respected individuals in their communities that ensure that quality education remains a priority.
As a Building Excellent Schools Fellow, you:
Get the Training: Through 100 training days, an extended leadership residency in a high-performing urban charter school, 20 to 30 school visits and structured work in your home territory, we teach you the essential practices which will ensure your students succeed. The culmination of the Fellowship year is the submission of a well-written, thoroughly researched charter application that reflects the best practices in urban school design. Schools founded by Building Excellent Schools Fellows are free-standing, locally controlled, and independent of any management organization.
Take the Lead: You become the lead founder of a charter school in your proposed territory. You choose the community; you build the board; you build stakeholder support, you make critical design decisions and write the application. Most importantly, you build an independently managed school that you will lead once it opens.
Get the Support: As a Building Excellent Schools Fellow, your full-time job is to design, build, and lead your charter school. Building Excellent Schools invests over $500,000 in your success - $250,000 covers your $80,000 stipend and training in school leadership in school design, school culture, governance and operations. After your charter is approved, you are eligible for an additional $250,000 in start up money. Building Excellent Schools supports your school through its opening and your planning year through Follow On Support. The goal of Follow-On Support is to provide a combination of proactive and responsive supports that help Fellows conquer the many challenges encountered when opening a successful charter school. The mission remains the same: to ensure that Fellows are able to lead results-focused, mission-driven, high-achieving urban charter schools.
Respond By: August 15, 2009
Application Procedures: How Do You Apply?
We strongly recommend completing our online Introductory Fellowship Questionnaire prior to applying for the Fellowship. However, applications can be completed online at www.buildingexcellentschools.org. The priority deadline for the Building Excellent Schools Fellowship is December 15, 2008. The winter deadline is February 23, 2009. The spring deadline is May 11, 2009.
For more information about Building Excellent Schools and the Building Excellent Schools Fellowship, please contact recruiting@buildingexcellentschools.org.
Do You Want To Know How They Did It?
To date, 35 Building Excellent Schools Fellows in 12 states have founded charter schools that will have opened by the fall of 2009. Visit www.buildingexcellentschools.org, to learn more about the organization, The Fellowship, and the many schools started by our Fellows. I particularly encourage you to learn more about the astonishing academic success of Fellow Founded-school West Denver Prep - http://www.westdenverprep.org/index.asp. West Denver Prep 7th Grade scores are first in the state among similar populations.
Listing Posted/Expires: 8/21/2008-8/21/2009
Job Title: Youth Care Specialist
City, State: St. Louis, MO
Organization: Evangelical Children's Home
Salary: negotiable
Salary comment: commensurate upon experience
Qualifications: Must be at least 21 years of age. Relevant experience is preferred but not required.
Job Description: Rewarding full-time and PRN positions available within residential programs serving children with moderate to severe behavioral challenges. Position offers one of the highest salaries in the industry, excellent benefits, and team environment.
Respond By: 8/21/2009
Application Procedures: Please send resume and cover letter to:
Human Resources
Evangelical Children's Home
8240 St. Charles Rock Road
St. Louis, MO 63114
fax 314-426-0764
dwade@echmail.org
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