Christine Leung recently joined the Achievement School District to lead our knowledge management and collaboration efforts. Prior to moving to Nashville, Leung worked with senior leadership at San Francisco Unified School District to improve organizational workflow and build project management capacity to manage major reform initiatives.
In 2009, the inaugural cohort of Boston Teach Plus Teaching Policy Fellows came together to study education policy and advocate for reforms to improve schools and the teaching profession. They knew that students who most needed great teachers actually had a decreased likelihood of getting them, and what’s more, they knew that these same great teachers often left the classroom early due to a lack of leadership options.
We will work with The Emerging Leaders Program to strengthen leadership skills of talented teachers. Our participants on the pathway to school leadership will receive intensive training and support that sets them up for success as a principal while building leadership capacity across a system. The Emerging Leaders Program teaches participants powerful mindsets and skill sets to drive achievement immediately.
In the opening chapters, Chip and Dan Heath discuss something particularly relevant to our work at the Achievement School District. We have a theory: if you create a system of schools with flexibility in four key areas (time, people, program and resources) and hire outstanding principals, the school will provide students with an outstanding education. We have been busy over the past few months planning how we make this happen and we have set an ambitious goal. In the coming years, we will ensure that the 85 schools across Tennessee that are currently performing in the bottom 5% in the state will elevate their performance to the top quartile. Each of our Achievement Schools will go from the bottom 5% to the top 25% within five years, and we will put students on a different life path than what they can currently choose.
The Director of Operations will play an immediate role in the transformation of one of the three Memphis Achievement Schools. Through management of such functions as finance, procurement, technology, food service, facilities, and student information the DoO position will provide critical site-based operational leadership. The DoO role, in coordination with common ASD structures, will enable the school to function semi-autonomously.
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