Leadership Study Tours
In an effort to support districts and provide additional follow-up opportunities for executive education participants, SELI and the School Redesign Network at Stanford (SRN) developed the Leadership Study Tours (LST) exclusively for district-level leaders who are in the process of redesigning large schools or creating/sustaining new small schools.
Building on the success of more than a dozen SRN Small Schools Study Tours over the past three years, district teams have the opportunity to:
- Explore first-hand the design features of highly effective small schools through intimate conversations with district leaders, principals, teachers, students, counselors and community leaders;
- Visit the Julia Richman Education Complex (JREC), a formerly failing comprehensive high school that today thrives as a complex of autonomous small schools; and
- Examine the mutually interdependent roles that the central office, intermediary organizations and school site leadership can play in creating and sustaining such schools.
Speakers have included the principals of both International High School in Queens, NY and Landmark High School in Manhattan; Eric Nadelstern, Chief Academic Officer of Learning Zone and former Bronx Deputy Superintendent of New and Small Schools; John Ferrandino, President of the National Academy Foundation and former New York City Superintendent for High Schools; Bob Hughes, Executive Director of New Visions for Public Schools; and Ann Cook, Director of Urban Academy within JREC. During the tours, teams were split during the day such that half of the team visited International High School while the other half visited Landmark High School. Based on participant feedback, we extended this Leadership Study Tour such that they are now one day longer than previous Tours—to allow participants to be able to visit each school site and we have expanded the work time for districts to debrief and to plan ahead and determine their goals for the next day’s site visits.
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