Overview
Building Excellent Schools (BES) is an acknowledged leader in the national charter school movement. Since its founding in 1993, our organization has been committed to eliminating the academic achievement gap among students living in our nation’s urban areas.
BES accomplishes its work through a variety of programs and services, the foremost of which is the Building Excellent Schools Fellowship — a yearlong, full-time, comprehensive training program in charter school creation. Fellows are prepared and trained to design, found, and operate highly structured, no-excuses urban charter schools that meet the specific needs of underperforming, marginalized children.
A key to the success of BES schools is our belief that academic performance drives every element of a school, including design, leadership, culture, decisions, and governance. This core tenet has proven itself in practice at the 43 BES Schools operating in 18 states as of September 2010.
In 2009, those schools averaged 74% proficiency on state English and mathematics exams compared to 47% for their surrounding school districts.
At capacity, the 43 BES Schools will serve more than 18,000 students.
How the BES fellowship works
The Building Excellent Schools Fellowship prepares leaders to design, found and lead urban charter schools of uncompromising excellence.
While the process of founding a charter school may be viewed over a period of several years, in the first 12 months of the program, Fellows receive an $80,000 professional stipend and extensive training and support to focus on one goal — founding and leading a high-achieving, no-excuses urban charter school that is independently managed.
In its first year, the Fellowship comprises 85 training days in Boston, an extended residency in a high-performing charter school, and ongoing coaching and support around board and charter application development. The culmination of the year is the submission of a well-written, thoroughly researched charter application that reflects the best practices in urban school design.
Although the Building Excellent Schools Fellowship is one year, BES is committed to the success of its schools and encourages Fellows to participate in Follow-On Support for the subsequent two years or more in order to receive continued training and guidance through start-up and early operation.
Who is the typical Best fellow?
Building Excellent Schools Fellows share common beliefs far more than they share common experiences. Our Fellows represent a vast range of professional experience including education, business, non-‐profit management, law and public policy. Classroom experience is not a pre-‐ requisite for participation in the program. Building Excellent Schools is looking for high-‐capacity individuals who are deeply committed to fundamentally changing urban education.
Building Excellent Schools Fellows have:
A belief that academic achievement drives everything Leadership, school design, governance
A track record of exceptional impact In professional pursuits – business, law, education, or their communities
Building Excellent Schools Fellows are:
- High capacity
- Strong communicators, strategic thinkers, highly flexible and urgent
- Relentless achievers
- Humble
- Always willing to learn
- Demanding of themselves and others
- Entrepreneurial, high-capacity, and urgent
Building Excellent Schools Fellows:
- Demonstrate leadership through a track record of outstanding and measurable results, an absolute belief that academic achievement drives everything in a school that he or she will found, and a commitment to urban education
- Believe that good is not good enough; only great will suffice
- Are entrepreneurial, high-capacity, and urgent
- Get the job done no matter what
Charter application
The culmination of the Fellowship year is the submission of a well-written, thoroughly researched charter application that reflects the best practices in urban school design. Ultimately this application will not be the reflection of a solely individual effort. A successful Fellow will have built a Founding Board of seven to 11 equally committed people from a variety of backgrounds who fully support and believe in the proposal and pledge to receive the charter and usher the school through its first years. The Fellow will also have made real community connections in the territory in which he or she intends to found their school, ensuring that their effort is seen as integral to the community’s future. The school’s status as free-standing, locally controlled, and independent only affirms these connections.
For the 2011-2012 Fellowship, we welcome applicants who wish to start charter schools in:
COLORADO: Denver
MASSACHUSETTS: New Bedford, Lowell, and multiple additional cities
NEW YORK: New York City
TENNESSEE: Memphis, Nashville
NATIONAL FELLOW: Additional locations
Application deadlines for the 2011 BES Fellowship:
February 20, 2011 Winter deadline
May 10, 2011 Spring deadline
We offer a $5,000 “finder’s fee” to eligible individuals* who nominate Fellow candidate-applicants who successfully enroll in the BES Fellowship beginning in September 2011.
Selection process
1) Application and Resume Review: Applicants complete Steps 1-3 of the Fellowship Application. Review of the Fellowship Application will begin once all three steps have been completed. Applicants will of hear of their initial application status within 10 – 14 days of submitting a completed Fellowship Application via email or phone.
2) Applicant Phone Interviews: Selected applicants will be invited to participate in a series of phone interviews with members of the Fellowship selection team.
3) In-Person Interview: Selected applicants will be invited to participate in a rigorous in person interview with members of the Fellowship selection team.
4) Reference Checks and Fellowship Invitations: Invitations to the Fellowship are extended to selected applicants
Address:
262 Washington Street
7th Floor
Boston, MA 02108
Phone: (617) 227-4545
Fax: (617) 227-4551
Email: bes@buildingexcellentschools.org
http://www.buildingexcellentschools.org/bes-fellowship/
Please quote Scholarization.blogspot.com on your application when applying for this fellowship
Building Excellent Schools (BES) is an acknowledged leader in the national charter school movement. Since its founding in 1993, our organization has been committed to eliminating the academic achievement gap among students living in our nation’s urban areas.
BES accomplishes its work through a variety of programs and services, the foremost of which is the Building Excellent Schools Fellowship — a yearlong, full-time, comprehensive training program in charter school creation. Fellows are prepared and trained to design, found, and operate highly structured, no-excuses urban charter schools that meet the specific needs of underperforming, marginalized children.
A key to the success of BES schools is our belief that academic performance drives every element of a school, including design, leadership, culture, decisions, and governance. This core tenet has proven itself in practice at the 43 BES Schools operating in 18 states as of September 2010.
In 2009, those schools averaged 74% proficiency on state English and mathematics exams compared to 47% for their surrounding school districts.
At capacity, the 43 BES Schools will serve more than 18,000 students.
How the BES fellowship works
The Building Excellent Schools Fellowship prepares leaders to design, found and lead urban charter schools of uncompromising excellence.
While the process of founding a charter school may be viewed over a period of several years, in the first 12 months of the program, Fellows receive an $80,000 professional stipend and extensive training and support to focus on one goal — founding and leading a high-achieving, no-excuses urban charter school that is independently managed.
In its first year, the Fellowship comprises 85 training days in Boston, an extended residency in a high-performing charter school, and ongoing coaching and support around board and charter application development. The culmination of the year is the submission of a well-written, thoroughly researched charter application that reflects the best practices in urban school design.
Although the Building Excellent Schools Fellowship is one year, BES is committed to the success of its schools and encourages Fellows to participate in Follow-On Support for the subsequent two years or more in order to receive continued training and guidance through start-up and early operation.
Who is the typical Best fellow?
Building Excellent Schools Fellows share common beliefs far more than they share common experiences. Our Fellows represent a vast range of professional experience including education, business, non-‐profit management, law and public policy. Classroom experience is not a pre-‐ requisite for participation in the program. Building Excellent Schools is looking for high-‐capacity individuals who are deeply committed to fundamentally changing urban education.
Building Excellent Schools Fellows have:
A belief that academic achievement drives everything Leadership, school design, governance
A track record of exceptional impact In professional pursuits – business, law, education, or their communities
Building Excellent Schools Fellows are:
- High capacity
- Strong communicators, strategic thinkers, highly flexible and urgent
- Relentless achievers
- Humble
- Always willing to learn
- Demanding of themselves and others
- Entrepreneurial, high-capacity, and urgent
Building Excellent Schools Fellows:
- Demonstrate leadership through a track record of outstanding and measurable results, an absolute belief that academic achievement drives everything in a school that he or she will found, and a commitment to urban education
- Believe that good is not good enough; only great will suffice
- Are entrepreneurial, high-capacity, and urgent
- Get the job done no matter what
Charter application
The culmination of the Fellowship year is the submission of a well-written, thoroughly researched charter application that reflects the best practices in urban school design. Ultimately this application will not be the reflection of a solely individual effort. A successful Fellow will have built a Founding Board of seven to 11 equally committed people from a variety of backgrounds who fully support and believe in the proposal and pledge to receive the charter and usher the school through its first years. The Fellow will also have made real community connections in the territory in which he or she intends to found their school, ensuring that their effort is seen as integral to the community’s future. The school’s status as free-standing, locally controlled, and independent only affirms these connections.
For the 2011-2012 Fellowship, we welcome applicants who wish to start charter schools in:
COLORADO: Denver
MASSACHUSETTS: New Bedford, Lowell, and multiple additional cities
NEW YORK: New York City
TENNESSEE: Memphis, Nashville
NATIONAL FELLOW: Additional locations
Application deadlines for the 2011 BES Fellowship:
February 20, 2011 Winter deadline
May 10, 2011 Spring deadline
We offer a $5,000 “finder’s fee” to eligible individuals* who nominate Fellow candidate-applicants who successfully enroll in the BES Fellowship beginning in September 2011.
Selection process
1) Application and Resume Review: Applicants complete Steps 1-3 of the Fellowship Application. Review of the Fellowship Application will begin once all three steps have been completed. Applicants will of hear of their initial application status within 10 – 14 days of submitting a completed Fellowship Application via email or phone.
2) Applicant Phone Interviews: Selected applicants will be invited to participate in a series of phone interviews with members of the Fellowship selection team.
3) In-Person Interview: Selected applicants will be invited to participate in a rigorous in person interview with members of the Fellowship selection team.
4) Reference Checks and Fellowship Invitations: Invitations to the Fellowship are extended to selected applicants
Address:
262 Washington Street
7th Floor
Boston, MA 02108
Phone: (617) 227-4545
Fax: (617) 227-4551
Email: bes@buildingexcellentschools.org
http://www.buildingexcellentschools.org/bes-fellowship/
Please quote Scholarization.blogspot.com on your application when applying for this fellowship
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