Results

The Leadership Initiative is making a difference:

  • Since 1998, more than 375 Hamilton County teachers have benefited from the Leadership Fellows program and are serving in many different roles across the district, including:
    • 41 principals
    • 42 assistant principals
    • 59 teacher leaders, including lead/model classroom teachers, instructional coaches and consulting teachers
  • Over 200 principals, assistant principals, and other members of school leadership teams attended the Summer Leadership Institute in June 2011.

  • 13 aspiring principals graduated from the first class of the Principal Leadership Academy.  Six of these graduates were selected as principals, five in Hamilton County and one in Nashville.
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Leadership Initiative

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“Due to the funds that were provided… …for us by the Benwood Initiative, we’ve been able to provide some of the best research-based workshops for our teachers to implement reading strategies in the classroom, and we’ve established a literacy block which is two hours per day, every day, for all of our students.”
Marthel Young
Principal,
Orchard Knob Elementary