Graduate School & Yearlong Fellowships: Professional Development
The Graduate School and Yearlong Fellowships include full-day professional development workshops with a local cohort where Fellows explore and examine key urban education themes.
These workshops offer a unique opportunity for Fellows to collaborate and engage with cross-industry professionals within their cohorts through a variety of activities. Fellows experience firsthand the value of leveraging multiple perspectives to address education challenges, and learn from and teach each other in a way that is largely unprecedented within education.
Through professional development, the Fellowship equips Fellows to discuss the education landscape and critical issues credibly and skillfully, and to understand key leadership paths in education outside of the classroom.
Sample workshop topics include:
- Opportunity Gap: conversation about race, class, and public education
- Public School Models
- Urban Districts
- Human Capital
In addition, Education Pioneers secures influential education leaders to speak candidly to Fellows during the workshops about the successes and challenges they face in their work. Fellows engage directly with these experts to deepen their understanding of education and to broaden their personal networks. Guest speakers have included:
Carlos Garcia, Superintendent, San Francisco Unified School District
David Harris, President and CEO, The Mind Trust
Dr. William Hite, Superintendent, Prince George's County Public Schools
Ron Huberman, CEO, Chicago Public Schools
Bill Jackson, Founder and CEO, GreatSchools
Dave Levin, Founder, KIPP
Paul Reville, Secretary of Education, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Christopher J. Steinhauser, Superintendent, Long Beach Unified School District
