MCEL National Leadership Institute
Application available:
January 5, 2023
Questions should be emailed to:
Who Should Attend:
- Assistant Superintendents
- Deputy Superintendents
- Experienced School Leaders (3+years)
- Managers/Directors
Application Deadline:
February 10, 2023
Tuition Costs:
TBD (Scholarships available)
WHERE
The Center for Creative Leadership, North Carolina
WHAT
A 1-year Intensive Executive Leadership Institute
Inaugural Cohort:
24 National Fellows whom all identify as male leaders of color
Dates:
- Program launch, week of July 18-21, 2023 (in-person)
- Two virtual sessions (fall and spring)
- Winter National Convening (in-person)
- Final programming and graduation Summer 2024 (in-person)
Goals of the Institute:
Quality
Equip men of color with the leadership skills, knowledge, and system of support to lead complex organizations that drastically improve the success of all students.
Four principles guide the Institute:
Four principles guide the Institute:
- A developed self-awareness of personal strengths and developmental needs will positively impact their ability to lead in all contexts and further the achievement of students and faculty
- An understanding of organizations and skills capable of impacting enterprise effectiveness
- Developing skills capable of advancing the goals of MCEL (Quality, Quantity, Care) through a process of implementing a set of personal key leadership challenges that will include an "each one reach one" philosophy
- Operate with a "Cohort philosophy" that learning will continue after the formal end of the program, and participants will continue to share their professional and personal practices.
- Strengthen leadership acumen through executive skill development-Provide leaders with the knowledge, guided practice, and skill development focused on developing and maximizing their leadership capacity
- Help leaders explore individual strengths and development needs
- Understand and unpack leadership style in relation to lived experiences and identity as a male leader of color
- Assist leaders in identifying their Key Leadership Commitments
- Analyzing and leveraging your vignette
Quantity
Increase the number of men of color in education leadership
Participant goals:
Analyze local context and recommend changes/shifts in policy and practices that will create conditions for leaders of color to thrive:
Participant goals:
Analyze local context and recommend changes/shifts in policy and practices that will create conditions for leaders of color to thrive:
- Pipeline Initiative
- Hiring Practices
- Policies
- Direct mentoring and support of the next generation of leaders
Care
Support male leaders of color in navigating the unique challenges they face by creating spaces that support being their authentic selves.
Participant goals:
Participant goals:
- Provide a space for Men of Color to heal and be their authentic selves
- Develop and strengthen a community among men of color who experience similar challenges
- Take a 360-degree assessment in advance of the Institute, and the assessment will be used to understand their strengths and developmental needs and personalize their experience.
- Analyze Case Studies/Research/Articles
- Engage in discussion and reflection relevant to their leadership development
- Engage in growth sessions focused on healing and self-care
- Mindfulness, demystifying mental health in men of color
- Culturally relevant experiential learning experiences
- Facilitated mini-lectures around MCEL’s essential leadership competencies and other leadership development themes
- Learn strategies for assessing the effectiveness of their organization’s support for leaders of color
- Learn from fireside chats from premiere current and former executive/system leaders from around the country
- Personal/professional vignette exploration
- Participate in consultancy protocols to unpack the essential leadership competencies
- Curate an integrated leadership support plan with an execution strategy
- Receive a “best match” accountability partner
- Individual coaching around their integrated leadership support plan for 1-year