A Network for Charter School Leaders of Color
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Fellowship and Advocacy
Fellowship and Advocacy
A Network For You
The National Charter Collaborative (NCC) supports single-site charter school leaders of color whose schools reflect the hopes and dreams of their students and cultural fabric of their communities.
Charter school leaders of color are a critical, yet overlooked, collective representing an estimated one-fourth of charter schools impacting over 335,000 students across the U.S.
Our Leaders
Caring for Students
Charter leaders of color are valuable and necessary contributors to building a healthy, diverse and dynamic charter sector designed to serve the needs of marginalized students.
Our vision
In Community
In 10 years, we will see a power shift in the education ecosystem that centers and values voices of color, new models of success rooted in student aspirations, and exponential growth of high quality charter schools led by leaders of color that enables limitless choice within marginalized communities.
Our Mission
Is Education
As the only nationwide network of charter school leaders of color, the National Charter Collaborative catalyzes the power of the collective to celebrate, connect, and support leaders as community experts to create and sustain quality schools that reflect the cultural fabric of our communities.
Our Unparalleled Database Begins To Tell The Story…
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Over 500 Single-site schools led by leaders of color
We continue to build our database of single-site charter schools led by leaders of color
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Over 335,000 Students
Our identified single-site charter schools led by leaders of color educate over 135,000 students
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Leader Demographics
72% Leaders are Black, 20% Latino, 6% Asian and 1% Middle East/North Africa
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74% Students are Black or Latino
41% Black and 33% Latino
How We Help School Leaders
We know how hard it is to run a school and simultaneously stay connected to opportunities to bring resources to create a high-performing school. The challenge can be even higher for leaders of color who may not have access to key networks.
We started the National Charter Collaborative specifically to build a community of leaders of color with the goal of supporting the success of your school and you, as a valuable, impactful leader.
Peer-to-Peer Network
Online and face-to-face opportunities for collaboration and sharing best practices
Access to expertise, resources and demonstration models
Consultancy
Host solutions workshops to provide professional development and pair experts and school service providers with leaders of color to address high-need areas
Fellowship
Two-year school and leadership development program for qualifying members
Fellows collaborate on scalable solution to common problem
Advocacy
A national advocacy agenda designed to engage a national collaborative of school leaders in advancing leadership talent development, codifying models of excellence and promise, and spurring school expansion and growth.
Join
Join our peer to peer online community, offered to single-site charter school leaders of color.
It’s a private space where you’ll connect with other leaders, share best practices, get access to resources, read great articles, get webinars, be first to register for NCC workshops and much more.