Detroit Children’s Fund, in partnership with New Leaders and Detroit Public School Community District, launched two concurrent talent development programs in SY 2018/2019 to support the development of DPSCD leadership. The first program focuses on developing current principals working in DPSCD to improve their instructional leadership capacity and drive improved student outcomes. The second program develops current assistant principals who aspire to be principals, to increase the district’s pool of future leaders. Both of these programs will help DPSCD assess their current talent assets and begin to build a “bench” of future school leaders to lead the next generation of Detroit’s schools.
In the next iteration of the DPSCD’s relationship with New Leaders, the district has chosen to “double-down” on the Emerging Leaders program, given the early results (6 emerging leaders placed into principalships for 2019-20 so far). In addition, DPSCD is seeking an additional “fast-track” leadership development program for some of its most promising leaders.